Hey everybody today my guest is Joel Saladin who is part of the family that owns

Polyphase Farms in Virginia the Shenandoah Valley the farm highlighted in the New York

Times bestseller omnivorousmma and the award-winning documentary Food Inc.

The farm uses no chemicals and raises pasture livestock including beef, pork, poultry,

turkey, lamb, and rabbit, which is directly marketed in the region and

ship nationwide.

He is the author of 16 books.

Joel Saladin is a sought after conference speaker on divergent

agricultural business and food integrity topics.

He is the editor of the Stockman Grass Farmer, and he writes columns in numerous publications.

Welcome to the show, I'm really, really happy to talk to you.

Thank you. It's really an honor of privilege to be with you, always.

Tell us a little bit about your farm and where that sits in kind of the national grid of organic agriculture.

Yeah, so we're in Virginia Shenandoah Valley.

Our family came here in 1961 and mom and dad never made a living from the farm.

Like, you know, they worked off farm to

Dad was an accountant mom was a school teacher and that that paid the mortgage.

So by the time I'm getting into a teenage years I love the farm I got my first

chickens when I was 10 years old. I love the farm I got my first chickens when I was 10 years old, had a little

laying chicken business. But dad was very innovative and you know I'm at the stage of my life where I realize now the

older I get the smarter dad was some of us get to that point.

I'm hoping my kids get to that point pretty soon.

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