May 17, 2012

Rebel with a Cause: The Chicken & the Egg

Photo of Polyface Farms by Molly McDonald Peterson for Flavor Magazine

• BONUS ONLINE-ONLY CONTENT FOR OCTOBER 2010 • If you weren’t already convinced that the industrial food system is unsafe, the recent egg recall should have scared you straight. By Joel Salatin   “I don’t think we should buy any eggs,” a customer whispered to her husband in our farm sales building a day after [...]

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Rebel with a Cause: A Fresh Approach to Culinary Arts

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Our neighbors to the south have launched a culinary arts program designed to train chefs to collaborate with farmers. By Joel Salatin     I recently traveled to Chatham County, North Carolina, the epicenter of a local food revolution. Central Carolina Community College, which has offered a sustainable agriculture associate degree for nearly a decade, [...]

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Rebel with a Cause: Foodie Elitism

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How should we respond when we’re called elitists because we buy more expensive, local food? By Joel Salatin • Photographs by Molly McDonald Peterson Because high-quality local food often carries a higher price tag than food generated by the industrial system, the charge of elitism coming from industrial foodists is often vitriolic, and embarrassed foodies [...]

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Rebel with a Cause: After a Hard Winter

This paralyzing winter should have taught us to take advantage of our local bounty and lay up for the day our food systems grind to a halt. By Joel Salatin The winter of 2009–2010 will go down in our mid-Atlantic record books as one to remember. Fender benders, shoveling, and bone-chilling cold. Here in the [...]

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Rebel with a Cause: What We Can Learn from the Big Box Stores

I am an advocate for farmers markets and CSAs.But if we really want the masses to “buy local,” do we need to consider another model? By Joel Salatin Anyone who knows me knows I’m an ardent supporter of farmers markets and community supported agriculture (CSA). Direct-marketing models linking farmers to buyers are as varied as [...]

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Rebel with a Cause: Beware Those Sincere Conservation Easements

Designed to save farms and farmland, these easements drive farmers into extinction.

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Raw Milk Revolution

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November 7, 2009
Come and celebrate David Gumpert’s newly published book, The Raw Milk Revolution. Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms will be present as well.

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