| Fields of Farmers: Interning, Mentoring, Partnering, Germinating Contributor(s): Salatin, Joel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0963810979 ISBN-13: 9780963810977 Publisher: Polyface OUR PRICE: $23.75 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2013 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Agriculture - Sustainable Agriculture - Business & Economics | Industries - Agribusiness - Social Science | Agriculture & Food |
| Dewey: 630.68 |
| LCCN: 2013912674 |
| Physical Information: 1.01" H x 6.05" W x 9.03" (1.14 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: America's average farmer is sixty years old. When young people can't get in, old people can't get out. Approaching a watershed moment, our culture desperately needs a generational transfer of millions of farm acres facing abandonment, development, or amalgamation into ever-larger holdings. Based on his decades of experience with interns and multigenerational partnerships at Polyface Farm, farmer and author Joel Salatin digs deep into the problems and solutions surrounding this land- and knowledge-transfer crisis. This book empowers aspiring young farmers, midlife farmers, and nonfarming landlords to build regenerative, profitable agricultural enterprises. |
Contributor Bio(s): Salatin, Joel: - Joel Salatin and his family own and operate Polyface Farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. The farm produces pastured beef, pork, chicken, eggs, turkeys, rabbits, lamb and ducks, servicing roughly 6,000 families and 50 restaurants in the farm's bioregion. He has written 11 books to date and lectures around the world on land healing, local food systems. |