Joel Salatin Brisbane Talk: follow-up notes

Greetings, everyone...

Many thanks for joining us at what proved to be an amazing evening under clouded skies, warm and dry in Food Connect’s brand new Nomadic Tent! Available for hire, call Rob @ Food Connect....

Some of you are no doubt still trying to mentally unpack the very large volume of information you absorbed on the evening... we are too!

Below are some thoughts and resources leading on from the talk, that you might find of use:

Polyface Farm online resources

• PolyFace Farm principles of farming.

• produced on farm.Polyface products  

• on farming, food and more.Articles by Joel

• Polyface resources including farming suppliers and magazines.

• Polyface Shop books, t shirts and more.

• Polyface apprenticeships the only way to currently get a copy of Joel's fabulous intern booklet!

ALSO.....

Farm to Family

A CSA Joel mentioned that's housed in an old school bus

Thundering Hooves

A pasture-based family operation in Washington State that Joel mentioned

Eat Wild

Info, links and support for direct-sell farmers

Weston A Price

That raw milk advocacy mob

The Stockman Grass Farmer

Some very good ranching resources

Acres USA

Housing many of Joel's articles

Bioneers

An amazing foundation working in food, farming and place

Joel on ABC TV

Filmed in ACT for BIG Ideas

Joel on ABC Radio

Interview by Steve Austin

RegenAG

The Regenerative Agriculture Group brought Joel to Australia for this workshop series

RegenAg on Facebook

Stay in touch with regenAG-ish news

Permaculture?

Read our friends at PRI’s definition here

FreeRange Permaculture

Courses in skills that matter, consultancy and design

• And last but not least; How to eviscerate a chicken

• The motherlode of Joel Salatin clips on YouTube can be found here

   

• If you're interested, there is a full DVD available that outlines Polyfaces' techniques here

   

Continuing the conversation

• Joel Salatin in FRESH  - exerpt from the doco. Short overview of techniques and ethics.

• Polyface on USA Today

   

  - a very digestable overview of the how and why.

• Joel Salatin TED talk

   

  - including that poached egg story...

• A three-part series on Polyface Farm by 'Meet the Farmer' TV: Part 1

• Various videos on Polyface: Pigs

Video resources

Now the RegenAG 2010 series is over, we know there's more to say. We invite you to share your thoughts on the RegenAG forum set up for this specific purpose:

RegenAG: Local farms and Community forum

This forum is a place you can swap stories, network and discuss ideas that came up in the Joel Salatin workshops and evening talks across Australia. We encourage you to give it a go!

We hope to have a DVD of our own out soon, so stay tuned. The DVD will feature Joel’s inspiring 1 month trip throughout Australia and cover his many workshops and evening talks including footage from the great night at Northey Street. Stay tuned....

Stop Press!

Joel Salatin Books & DVD

We're sorry it wasn’t possible for us to bring enough books with us but now you are able to order them online at our FreeRange Permaculture

Step One – Decide which books you would like to order

Step Two - Select the number of books you wish to purchase using the PayPal buttons provided

Step Three – We’ll make a bulk order from Polyface and send the books to your postal address provided through your PayPal account. Please let us know if the address you want the books sent to is different than your PayPal address.

Please note that all orders must be in by COB Tuesday 21st December. We expect to have the books in your hands by the end of February 2011.

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And lastly...

What next for RegenAG?

Joel's Australian tour marks the end of the 2010 Regenerative Agriculture Workshop Series

We've had an amazing response to this series and we, along with everyone else in RegenAG, look forward to cooking up more useful, insightful, essential and enjoyable events and workshops for Australian in 2011.

RegenAG will continue to source unique and timely information for Australian farmers and communities, so that we all can move towards participating in a truly Regenerative Agriculture for this wide brown land of ours.

We will be able to tell you what's in store next early in 2011. Thanks for being a part of it in 2010.

We would like to thank our venue, Northey Street City Farm, for providing such an amazing setting for this event. Also to Rob & Emma and entire Food Connect team for their support and stunning food and the tent! p.s. available for hire, call Rob.....

Thank you also to Queensland Conservation Council and their support through their Grow Local program.

We'd like to thank Joel Salatin for diving off a plane and head-first into this, his first Australian workshop series!

But most of all we'd like to thank YOU for coming.

Many of you travelled from far and wide, and we know that clearing an evening to come and participate was no small thing.

So many thanks, and all the best till next time -

FreeRange Permaculture: Kym, Georgie, Jack & Dylan