Smart & Special: The Big Picture with Joel Salatin (Part 2)

Join us for the 2nd installment of this enlightening series where Joel Salatin and Grant Estrade delve into their wealth of experience to help you achieve success and productivity on your acreage no matter the size. Over two intense and comprehensive days, we'll explore essential strategies tailored for small-scale farming at Small, Smart & Special.
Farms don’t have to be BIG to be profitable if they are ...
SMART & SPECIAL
The streaming and DVD versions are coming soon!

[@wrenwest4887]

"Holiday Giants: Chickens with cleavage" ! What a stroke of ingenuity and marketing savvy! And desperation! But necessity is the mother of inventive re-assignment! Could not stop laughing! More power!

[@willbass2869]

Thanks SGF fir the long form video. I subscribed during '90s & '00s and attended a couple of your classes back then, includ Blacksburg VA & Jackson. Life threw some curves & i had to go another direction We lost Allan Nation far too soon. As for me, his impact went far beyond agriculture & the old "cows per acre". He "saw" far into the future. Good luck

[@twc9000]

Excellent video. I'm just starting out with some land that has been neglected and I'm excited to turn it into a productive farm.

[@bettypearson5570]

Joel is absolutely correct about if you are starting this at over fifty yo. At first I was quite offended as a person on the downside of sixty but he was talking about farming as a business with a succession plan. I bought myself a retirement farm because I wanted to return to the lifestyle I grew up in and having a postage stamp urban garden just wasn't cutting it. But I struggle with coming up with a succession plan for what I am working on developing. If I dropped over dead tomorrow, my son's would sell the farm to the highest bidder, probably a developer who would bulldoze the property to turn into a subdivision. Then in turn they would spend that money on cruises (1 son goes on a minimum of 1 cruise per year and 1 year went on 4), vacations or other entertainment. Don't get me wrong, they work very hard, but they do so that they can play hard rather than to build anything of lasting value. Good men but what we value is very different. I would love to have someone to leave it to who would continue to build on but who is going to want to wait another 20-30 years before it is actually theirs?

[@EmeraldsFire]

Finding boxes of produce in the car in the morning. "Garden fairy has been here" 😂 When I was a kid we would run obstacle races that included running across top of the big round haybailes. Most fun was when there was a short gap between them that had to be jumped over. Only lasted till adults found out about it and freaked because uncle once broke his collar bone jumping off one playing Dukes of Hazard....But boy that was fun! 😂 It would be cool if could figure a way of including that in the cross-gym idea. Somehow lessen the distance or impact of falling off? Offer cheap jacket for sliding off the hay? (Not that it mattered to us kids any. 🙃)

[@rochrich1223]

Escargot electric fence is a galvanized wire half an inch away from a copper wire. I usually see them around raised beds to keep slugs out. I don't see why you couldn't keep stocker snails in.

[@hidawayhomestead524]

So wait. What about the money to purchase all the animals? What did they fall under?