BACKGROUND ON POLYFACE FARM

by Joel Salatin

"I am first and foremost a farmer, but not a very ordinary farmer In fact, I’m known as a Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic. Our family farm in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley now has four generations living on it I’m second generation, but the day-to-day operations are handled by my son. Polyface Farm is a diversified, grassbased, beyond organic, direct marketing farm. We produce salad bar beef, pigaerator pork, pastured poultry and eggs, forage based rabbits, and forestry products. Purchased by my mom and dad in 1961, the farm has gone from a worn out, gullied weedpatch that couldn’t even pay a salary to one that employs 10 people with more than a million dollars in sales.

It’s still experiencing exponential growth Lush pastures supported by ecstatic copulating earthworms testify to the healing.

While many business folks would consider this a tiny business and it is it is considered quite a large farm by USDA sales criteria, which calls any farm with sales above $400,000 annually a large farm. Polyface direct markets everything it produces to a customer base that numbers 2,000 families, 25 restaurants, and 10 retail outlets.

For context, please understand that we don’t do anything conventionally. We haven’t bought a bag of chemical fertilizer in half a century, never planted a seed, own no plow or disk or silo."

Joel Salatin Owner of Polyface Farm

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