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Joel Salatin on creating “forgiving” food systems

April 7, 2009 by Ryan Slifka

American farmer Joel Salatin on “building forgiveness into the system.”
Salatin owns Polyface Farms, a large organic farm in the Shenendoah valley of Virginia. His farm operates by what some would call biodynamic principles, where the farm is essentially self-sustaining and requires few outside inputs to be productive. Salatin was featured in Michael Pollan’s manifesto [...]

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Towards Sustainability: One Couple’s Working Model (Part II)

Thumbnail image for Towards Sustainability: One Couple’s Working Model (Part II) April 6, 2009 by Jonathan Wright

This is part 2 of a series of articles penned by Jonathan Wright, a Calgary area farmer and co-founder of one of the city’s first community supported agriculture programs. Jon operates a zero-emission farm called Thompson Small Farm near Carbon, Alberta with his partner Andrea.
Thompson Small Farm has different ideas about “sustainable” from those of [...]

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