| Pages: | 304 pages |
| Size: | 6 x 9 inch |
| Publisher: | Polyface |
| Pub. Date: | September 17, 2013 |
| ISBN: | 9780963810977 |
Fields of Farmers
Interning, Mentoring, Partnering, Germinating
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 operate Polyface Farm in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. His parents purchased the farm in 1961 and developed the basic principles of design and production that have now been refined for over 60 years.
Joel gravitated toward communication activities in high school and college, graduating with a BA degree in English, and after a brief journalism hiatus, returned to the family farm full-time Sept. 24, 1982.
Editor of The Stockman Grass Farmer magazine, he writes and speaks around the world on food and farm issues. With a long track record of innovation and excellence, Polyface holds educational seminars, farm tours, day camps and events to encourage duplication and understanding.
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