Fields of Farmers

Interning, Mentoring, Partnering, Germinating

Fields of Farmers
Pages:304 pages
Size: 6 x 9 inch
Publisher:Polyface
Pub. Date: September 17, 2013
ISBN: 9780963810977

Fields of Farmers

Interning, Mentoring, Partnering, Germinating

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$25.00



America’s average farmer is sixty years old. When young people can’t get in, old people can’t get out. Approaching a watershed moment, our culture desperately needs a generational transfer of millions of farm acres facing abandonment, development, or amalgamation into ever-larger holdings. Based on his decades of experience with interns and multigenerational partnerships at Polyface Farm, farmer and author Joel Salatin digs deep into the problems and solutions surrounding this land- and knowledge-transfer crisis. This book empowers aspiring young farmers, midlife farmers, and nonfarming landlords to build regenerative, profitable agricultural enterprises.

 


About Joel Salatin

Joel Salatin and his family own Polyface Farm in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, chemical-free and carbon-driven since 1961. This is his 17th book dealing with practice and philosophy in farming that is economically, ecologically, and emotionally enhancing. Featured in countless media outlets, from print to audio to video, Salatin is known as America’s most famous farmer. He speaks worldwide to farmers, foodies, and food freedom advocates about healing food systems and farmscapes.