My imperative is to seek every moment and to live so God is in control. — Joel Salatin Control Copy Share Image
The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is. — Joel Salatin Food Copy Share Image
“The same teen who can't legally operate a four-wheeler, or [ATV]...in a farm lane workplace environment can operate a jacked-up F-250 pickup… — Joel Salatin Farming Copy Share Image
We need to respect the fact that cows are herbivores, and that does not mean feeding them corn and chicken manure. — Joel Salatin Chicken Copy Share Image
That's the joke about confinement pigs: they taste like whatever sauce you cook them with. — Joel Salatin About Copy Share Image
What happens is all these things we're seeing – campylobacter, E coli, mad cow, listeria, salmonella, that weren't even in the lexicon… — Joel Salatin Bovine Copy Share Image
We can't begin to feed ourselves with a local-centric system if we lock up land in royal manor models. — Joel Salatin Feed Copy Share Image
Just because we can ship organic lettuce from the Salinas Valley, or organic cut flowers from Peru, doesn't mean we should do… — Joel Salatin Alternatives Copy Share Image
In general, we run the farm like a business instead of a welfare recipient, and we adhere to historically-validated patterns. — Joel Salatin Business Copy Share Image
I would suggest that if you get in your kitchen and cook for yourself, you can eat like kings for a very… — Joel Salatin Food Copy Share Image
A pig has a plow on the end of its nose because it does meaningful work with it. It is built to… — Joel Salatin Create Copy Share Image
The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all… — Joel Salatin Backyards Copy Share Image
From my earliest memories, I loved the farm. My grandfather was a charter subscriber to Rodale's Organic Gardening and Farming Magazine and… — Joel Salatin Farm Copy Share Image
There's a big difference between industrializing production of tractors and industrializing production of food. We like technology, but we really like technology… — Joel Salatin Better Copy Share Image
The cows shorten the grass, and the chickens eat the fly larvae and sanitize the pastures. This is a symbiotic relation. — Joel Salatin Chickens Copy Share Image
One of the greatest assets of a farm is the sheer ecstasy of life. — Joel Salatin Assets Copy Share Image
Oh, my goodness, when we came to the farm in 1961, I mean, it wouldn't even support one salary. — Joel Salatin Farm Copy Share Image
We can produce more per acre on a fifth of the fuel as the industrial food system. — Joel Salatin Food Copy Share Image
That many if not most people...who want fresh leafy greens in January buy them at the supermarket after they've been bleached and… — Joel Salatin Abdication Copy Share Image
We control health and pathogenicity by complex multi-speciated relationships through symbiosis and synergy. Portable shelters for livestock, along with electric fencing, insure… — Joel Salatin Clean air Copy Share Image
