Regenerative Farming

Original video by The Epoch Times: https://youtu.be/kruxrHuQcGE Family farms in America are slowly disappearing, with a 2022 USDA census reporting that America lost 142,000 farms over just five years. The average farmer in America is now nearly 60 years old. But it's not government subsidies that farmers need to stay afloat, says Joel Salatin. What small farmers really need is the freedom to innovate and sell directly to local consumers—without facing a morass of red tape, regulations, and mandates. Salatin, co-owner of Polyface Farms in Virginia, is widely recognized as a leading pioneer of sustainable or regenerative farming practices that enrich the land, rather than depleting it. Over the last half century, Salatin has seen his fair share of what he calls the “food police.” He discovered it was illegal to sell a couple dozen homemade pot pies at the farmers’ market without proving he had a certified $50,000 septic system; illegal to process his own meat without sending it to a licensed butcher; illegal for his 17-year-old apprentices to operate a cordless drill—even though they were legally allowed to drive a car; and illegal to build housing without a permit on his farm—an agricultural zone—for his highly popular farmer apprenticeship program. The result? Small farmers have to fight for survival, factory farming wins, and America is less healthy, he says. “In my lifetime I have watched this erosion of farmer access to retail dollars. Meanwhile, we’re seeing farmers go out of business hand over fist,” Salatin says. What America really needs is a “Food Emancipation Proclamation,” he says. Salatin is the author of 17 books, including “Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front.” If you got value out of this video, SHARE IT with those you love! 🌐 My website, where you can find my blog, podcast, and all other projects focused on awakening as many beautiful souls as possible on the most important issues of our time: https://benwehrman.com/ 📢⚡️ Join the free speech revolution on NOSTR, the decentralized social media network of the future: https://rumble.com/playlists/IKTigOwaaQ4 👕🔥 Shop Red Pill Merch - conversation-starting shirts: https://www.redpillthreads.com/ben

Follow along with Joel Salatin as he takes you on a tractor tour around the regenerative farm of many faces. Along the way Joel visits the mobile infrastructure of the pasture raised broiler chickens. Then, visiting the barn Joel demonstrates the carbonaceous diaper concept and how to turn carbon into compost using winter bedding and the animals as workers. Following that, Joel makes a stop in the pastures where he demonstrates a cattle move using his Salad Bar Beef concept. Finally the tour makes its last stop at the millennium feathernet (the pastured egg laying hen shelter) and demonstrates how he keeps 1000 laying hens for eggs on pasture in a rotational grazing plan behind the cattle. Considering starting your own farm or homestead? Learn more about Joel Salatin's "Farm Like a Lunatic" masterclass on regenerative farming here 👉https://www.farmlikealunatic.com If you got value out of this video, SHARE IT with those you love! 🌐 My website, where you can find my blog, podcast, and all other projects focused on awakening as many beautiful souls as possible on the most important issues of our time: https://benwehrman.com/ 📢⚡️ Join the free speech revolution on NOSTR, the decentralized social media network of the future: https://rumble.com/playlists/IKTigOwaaQ4 👕🔥 Shop Red Pill Merch - conversation-starting shirts: https://www.redpillthreads.com/ben

Original video by Adam Taggart: https://youtu.be/2DyF4qTqDpY Few things are more valuable in life than the food we eat and the soil that grows it. So today, we have the great honor of talking with Joel Salatin. Named "the most famous farmer in America", Joel has spent his career advocating for sustainable farming practices, and pioneering models that show how food can be grown & raised in ways that: are regenerative to our topsoils are more humane to livestock produce much healthier, tastier food contribute profitably to the local economy Who wouldn't want that? Well, the government and Big Ag for starters. Joel refers to himself a "lunatic farmer" because so many of the changes he thinks our food systems need are either illegal under current law or mightily resisted by the deep-pocketed corporations controlling production and distribution. But that doesn't stop him from his passion of inspiring others to take a better path. He co-owns and operates, with his family, Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia. Featured in the New York Times bestseller Omnivore’s Dilemma and award-winning documentary Food Inc., the farm services more than 5,000 families, 50 restaurants, 10 retail outlets, and a farmers’ market with produce and pastured beef, pork, poultry, as well as forestry products. On the farm, Joel and his staff pilot new practices, mentor young farmers, educate the public, and produce an excellent set of workshops for those looking to truly 'get their hands dirty' learning how to farm sustainably. He's a true hero to many, including me. And I predict he'll be one of yours, too, by the end of this discussion.

Original video by Adam Taggart: https://youtu.be/MxLPH48IJ3U Named "the most famous farmer in America", Joel has spent his career advocating for sustainable farming practices, and pioneering models that show how food can be grown & raised in ways that: are regenerative to our topsoils are more humane to livestock produce much healthier, tastier food contribute profitably to the local economy Who wouldn't want that? Well, the government and Big Ag for starters. Joel refers to himself a "lunatic farmer" because so many of the changes he thinks our food systems need are either illegal under current law or mightily resisted by the deep-pocketed corporations controlling production and distribution. But that doesn't stop him from his passion of inspiring others to take a better path. He co-owns and operates, with his family, Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia. Featured in the New York Times bestseller Omnivore’s Dilemma and award-winning documentary Food Inc., the farm services more than 5,000 families, 50 restaurants, 10 retail outlets, and a farmers’ market with produce and pastured beef, pork, poultry, as well as forestry products. On the farm, Joel and his staff pilot new practices, mentor young farmers, educate the public, and produce an excellent set of workshops for those looking to truly 'get their hands dirty' learning how to farm sustainably. He's a true hero to many, including me. And I predict he'll be one of yours, too, by the end of this discussion. For a very important look into the failures & promise of our nation’s food system, watch this video. If you got value out of this video, SHARE IT with those you love! 🌐 My website, where you can find my blog, podcast, and all other projects focused on awakening as many beautiful souls as possible on the most important issues of our time: https://benwehrman.com/ 📢⚡️ Join the free speech revolution on NOSTR, the decentralized social media network of the future: https://rumble.com/playlists/IKTigOwaaQ4 👕🔥 Shop Red Pill Merch - conversation-starting shirts: https://www.redpillthreads.com/ben

In this Q&A video, Joel Salatin answers a question from a YouTube user "What are your thoughts on rebel foods?" Well, as you can guess he has an answer to that. Joel discusses how our food system is enslaved by government authority & big food / big ag interests and calls on a "Food Emancipation Proclamation" in order for farmers to be able to sell their products to their neighbors without government limitation or interference. If you got value out of this video, SHARE IT with those you love! 🌐 My website, where you can find my blog, podcast, and all other projects focused on awakening as many beautiful souls as possible on the most important issues of our time: https://benwehrman.com/ 📢⚡️ Join the free speech revolution on NOSTR, the decentralized social media network of the future: https://rumble.com/playlists/IKTigOwaaQ4 👕🔥 Shop Red Pill Merch - conversation-starting shirts: https://www.redpillthreads.com/ben

Dr. Peter Ballerstedt (aka The Sodfather) received his Bachelor of Science in Agriculture in 1981 and Master of Science in 1983, both from the University of Georgia. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky in 1986, specialising in forage management and utilisation, minoring in ruminant nutrition. He was the forage extension specialist at Oregon State University from 1986 to 1992. Peter is an advocate for ruminant animal agriculture and the essential role of animal sourced foods in the human diet. He strives to build bridges between producers, consumers, and researchers across a wide variety of scientific disciplines – increasing awareness of metabolic health and ruminant animal agriculture’s essential role in social, economic and ecological sustainability. Peter has spoken at many different events in the US and internationally. He blogs and posts to Facebook at “Grass Based Health” and on Twitter and Instagram at @GrassBased.

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Dr. Ballerstedt earned his bachelors and masters degrees at the University of Georgia and his doctorate at the University of Kentucky. He has an extensive background in forage production, utilization and forage-based livestock production systems and was the forage extension specialist at Oregon State University from 1986 until 1992. Peter’s personal experience has led him to re-examine human diet and health. What he has learned doesn’t agree with the advice given for the past several decades. This new understanding combined with his forage background has given him an increased passion for the key to true social, economic and ecological sustainability – ruminant animal production systems – the source of butter, red meat, and cheese! 👕🔥 Shop Red Pill Threads - shirts that start conversations: https://www.redpillthreads.com/ben

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