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Tending the Earth At Polyface Farm, Joel Salatin teaches the next generation how to be stewards of the land WRITTEN BY
Bob Kirchman
“No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth.”
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olyface Farm lies gently among the rolling hills of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, near Little North Mountain and Elliott Knob, in Augusta County. This land beneath the mountains is a beautiful
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patchwork quilt of fine pastures and forests, and it nurtures a dream as old as America yet as young as the many faces stewarding it. In the early days, a large number of Americans lived connected with the soil. Even lawyers and professional people raised crops. Washington, Jefferson, and Charles Carroll of Carrollton not only helped found our nation; they were instrumental in developing its agriculture. Today, only AMERI CAN ESSE NCE
