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Joel Salatin Brisbane Talk

I attended an amazing talk by Joel Salatin hosted by RegenAG a few weeks back and received this follow up. I thought I would throw it up on the blog. Some great links on organic farming and the future of food.

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

 

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

 


 

 /How to cut up 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

 

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

 

 / Part 2

 

 / Part 3

 

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  • Various videos on Polyface: Pigs

 

/ Salad bar beef

 

 /Broilers.

 

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

 

website. The process will be simple and as follows:

 

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.

 

 


Product Image

Item Name-

 

Price

 

 

 

 

Pastured Poultry Profits

 

 

By Joel Salatin, 1995 Joel began raising chickens when he was 10 years old and serendipitously fell into the pastured poultry concept a couple of...

$50

 

 

 

Salad Bar Beef

 

 

By Joel Salatin, 1995 Fishing for a phrase to describe this ultimately land-healing and nutrition-escalating production model, Joel realized that he...

$50

 

 

 

You Can Farm

 

 

By Joel Salatin, 1998 For all the wannabes and newbies, this book is subtitled: "The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start and Succeed in a Farming...

$50

 

 

 

Family Friendly Farming

 

 

By Joel Salatin, 2001 Joel calls this his soul book. Right now, four generations live at Polyface. That requires vision, grace, and an attractive...

$50

 

 

 

Holy Cows & Hog Heaven

 

 

By Joel Salatin, 2003 Written for food buyers to empower them in their dedication to food with integrity, this book changes people's lives. Farmers...

$34

 

Everything I Want to do is Illegal

 

 

By Joel Salatin, 2007 Although Polyface farm has been glowingly featured in countless national print and video media, it would not exist if the USDA...

$40

 

 

 

The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer

 

 

By Joel Salatin, 2010 Have you ever wondered: “So what really is the difference, anyway? Can there really be that much difference between the way two...

$45.00

 

 

 

Polyface Farm DVD

The official, comprehensive video about the farm. If a picture is worth a thousand words, this video is worth a library of writing!

$80


 

FreeRange Permaculture - 331 Henry Hannam Drive, Walkamin Qld 4872 . ph +61 (0)7 4086 8019

 

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www.FreeRangePermaculture.com.au

 

And lastly...

What next for RegenAG?

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

 

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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

 

 

 

 

 

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