Joel Salatin Walks Down Pastured Poultry's Memory Lane

Joel Salatin, Polyface Farms, recounts more than 30 years of pastured poultry history at the 2023 Pastured Poultry Conference in Dallas, Texas, in a talk that is inspirational and emotional. If you have ever wondered where pastured chickens, as we know the model today, came from, then this talk provides that answer and so much more.
The annual conference is hosted by American Pastured Poultry Producers Association (APPPA).
Footage provided by Jason Contreras of the Sow the Land KZbin channel.

[@SowtheLand]

Always a joy to listen to Joel! - Jason

[@TheDomVerde]

Thank you for filming this Jason.

[@darthvader5300]

In Russia we create chicken pastures for our chickens in the old traditional way by planting trees that produces edible acorns, nuts, pods (Siberian peashrubs), fruitsm(Sea buckthorn), etc for all kinds of poultry and between the trees we plant Russian comfrey and between the Russian comfrey we plant Jerusalem artichokes for all kinds of birds love to feed and frolic in dense stands of Jerusalem artichokes and it is done in the vast Russian steppes and we plant dense grids of jiji-sao grasses around each pasture forest plots in a grid pattern so that they can act as windbreaks and as snow breaks.

[@midwestribeye7820]

I love these suggestions! Very smart. Thanks you for sharing this. Many blessings to you!

[@dcg1976]

Too busy raping and killing Ukrainian women and children to feed the chicken?

[@ajb.822]

Very nice ! Yes, it is sad that these types of traditional ways and that knowledge was "lost" by so many in the industrial age, especially in much of the USA. I grew up on a dairy farm in the 1980s and 90s in Wisconsin, and we had 2 apple trees and a garden, but that was it. Our dairy cows and young stock did have a pasture, but we knew little about the better maintenance of pastures & of rotational grazing, much less the best ways, like what Alan Savory teaches ( it's the kind Joel Salatin does). On my father's side we're almost totally German, some English. They were farmers and ranchers. On my mother's side, Her father was also mostly German but her mother was half Swedish. Her grandparents had a small farm/homestead in North East USA, which she'd visited as a child, but was otherwise raised in town Had small yard with no garden or anything. Her dad was a chemical engineer. Had almost no experience at all with growing food or with animals, so, she did VERY well jumping straight into all that when she got married ( she came to our town as a teacher). She later planted more kinds of fruit trees and shrubs, most of it doing well although her 2 nut trees never produced. They are supposedly the correct distance from each other, but it makes me wonder if they didn't need to be closer, for pollination. She's had chickens for many years, gradually trying different ways of caring for them and feeding them. But we were so raised on imported fruits here, in our childhoods, that we are still trying to learn what other fruits exist, that we can grow here in north west Wisconsin ( USDA zone 4a). I did have a mulberry and some Manchurian apricots at one home, but we had to move away at a time when I wasn't able to take them with me. Now, they are way more expensive &/or hard to find available for sale. :( .

[@breesechick]

That's such a great management of the land and chickens!

[@rebeccaheuston9360]

You have a treasure of knowledge you must somehow keep alive for the world. You are good strong people. Dont listen to goverments

[@shanengivone3973]

I wish I could have interned with Joel Salatin! The voice of reason in a world turned upside down. God bless you, sir!

[@midwestribeye7820]

I had tears in my eyes during parts of this. Especially the ending. I'm a small town girl living in a city trying to get into the country. God blessed me with a back yard, so I have a garden and will be getting chickens as soon as my coop is finished. I've found a handful of like-minded neighbors and we are building community-sharing seeds and produce. Growing where planted until He shows me where to move. God bless.

[@shanengivone3973]

Come and take a look at my place in Wyandotte Oklahoma. God sent me out here. Maybe He's sending you here too... I'm just starting out and a bit overwhelmed but so happy to be out here...at Shiloh.

[@midwestribeye7820]

@@shanengivone3973 May God bless your journey!

[@shanengivone3973]

@@midwestribeye7820 and yours. Truthfully, I expect we who are watching will see Him very soon! Blessings!

[@julianeuhauser8408]

God sent us to Kentucky, blessed to escape commiefornia.

[@hidawayhomestead524]

Never can get enough information from this man

[@hunterbolen3332]

Good point on how fragile large companies are in crisis.

[@stephendemille5424]

Awesome content

[@mountainspringhomestead]

Love it!

[@blakepreston9108]

GOAT

[@eddiespears8016]

I want to come intern for you Joel. I am trying to figure out what I want to do for the rest of my life and I believe your model is the way I want to live.

[@I-am-gosh.]

Wish I'd known would have liked to have met him

[@stevesmythe4169]

Was this recoded with cell phone from the far side of the room ????

[@ampasturedpoultry]

Close. It's got that 1980s VHS home video feel. I'd recommend watching the chickens while you listen if a little movement takes over your attention. Not much added value in the visuals in this case.

[@dcg1976]

Smart man but he always loses me when right after he finishes telling me about how big business is destroying everything he says the problem is buerocrats and we should just trust small business; because a farmer wouldn't lie. That's great logic on Bonanza and The Waltons but in reality 1 in 10 farmers is a dirt bag, just like every other walk of life.

[@dcg1976]

@@tedbastwock3810 No, I'm pretty sure you'll be shut down if that 1 in 10 sells you tainted product and it kills you or your livestock. China doesn't regulate food markets and that's how COVID spread to humans. Join The Grange. If you're having trouble finding a lobbying group that aligns with your values then you're probably the 1 in 10.

[@michellejarvis7878]

The problem is that industrial corporate agriculture is an institution devoted to profit, greed and quantity over quality. Their policies care nothing for the earth, the animals or the people. The system itself is geared toward exploitation on a global level. That is far, far worse than even 10 percent of farmers who are bad people can do. Also, you're saying 90 % of farmers are decent people. Can you say that about Government beaurecrats who serve the industrial system? Have a good day.

[@dcg1976]

@@michellejarvis7878 10% is a place holder for an unknown but statistically significant percentage. It wasn't intended to be taken literally; sorry I didn't make that clearer.

[@dcg1976]

@@tedbastwock3810 "tyranical?" Joel Salatin is making millions of dollars working within the system, give me a break. He has always resolved his differences with the Commonwealth by eventually complying or through the due-process afforded him by the Commonwealth. He's the Al Sharpton of the farmer community. We'll just have to agree to disagree.

[@dcg1976]

@@tedbastwock3810 Yeah, yeah, yeah... Everyone's a helpless victim these days; even the millionaires and billionaires.