Quotes by Joel Salatin

Food security is not in the supermarket. Its not in the government. Its not at the emergency services division. True food security is the historical normalcy of packing it in during the abundant times, building that in-house larder, and resting easy knowing that our little ones are not dependent on next weeks farmers market or the electronic cashiers at the supermarket.

In my opinion, if there is one extremely legitimate use for petroleum besides running wood chippers and front-end loaders to handle compost, its making plastic for season extension. It parks many of the trucks [for cross-country produce transportation]. With the trucks parked, greenhouses, tall tunnels, and more seasonal, localized eating, can we feed ourselves? We still have to answer that burning question.

How many of us lobby for green energy or protected lands, but dont engage with the local bounty to lay by for tomorrows unseasonal reality? That we tend to not even think about this as a foundation for solutions in our food systems shows how quickly we want other people to solve these issues.

Weve created a tenfold core value protocol to make sure that we dont fall into an empire attitude.

Our motto is we respect and honour the pigness of the pig and the chickenness of the chicken. That means not confining them in a house with hundreds of others.

Were scared to death to try new things because we think we have to get it right the first time.

The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because its only in death that life can be regenerated.

Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen.

The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.

You cant have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You cant have junk food and have healthy people.

Frankly, any city person who doesnt think I deserve a white-collar salary as a farmer doesnt deserve my special food.

Our biggest fear is that Food, Inc. will move heavy-handed food-safety regulations forward.

Theres a short chain between field and fork, and the shorter that chain is - the fresher, the more transparent that system is - the less chance there is of anything from bio-terrorism to pathogenicity to spoilage.

We control health and pathogenicity by complex multi-speciated relationships through symbiosis and synergy. Portable shelters for livestock, along with electric fencing, insure hygienic and sanitary housing and lounging areas, not to mention clean air, sunshine, and exercise.

What were looking at is Gods design, natures template, and using that as a pattern to cut around and lay it down on a domestic model to duplicate that pattern that we see in nature.

We believe that the farm should be building forgiveness into the ecosystem. What does that mean? That a more forgiving ecosystem is one that can better handle drought, flood, disease, pestilence.

From my earliest memories, I loved the farm. My grandfather was a charter subscriber to Rodales Organic Gardening and Farming Magazine and had a huge, well kept garden with an octagonal chicken house in the corner.

Our land-healing ministry really is about cultivating relationships: between the people, the loving stewards, and the ecology of a place, what I call the environmental umbilical that were nurturing here.

It really disturbs me that the environmental movement has been co-opted by creation-worshippers instead of being encouraged by the Creator-worshippers.

“I saw a news report recently that measured average video game use by American men between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five: twenty hours per week. Do you mean the flower of Americas masculinity cant think of anything more important to do with twenty hours a week than sit in front of a video screen? Folks, this aint normal. Cant we unplug already?”