(cont'd from yesterdays post)
Re-post from 2017
Polyface Farm has not applied a chemical since the family bought it in 1961, says Joel Salatin. They don't run things like a "normal" farm does today. Mimicking the pattern of nature, fertilizer and sanitation are supplied by the animals instead of by chemicals and antibiotics.
The
farm is open to visitors and cameras every day, and he claims they have
no disease problems like those that plague industrial farms. Cows are
moved to fresh pasture every day, chickens follow cows by 3 days, then
turkeys. Pasture receives the time it needs to re-grow.
"It’s
all a symbiotic, multi-speciated synergistic relationship-dense
production model that yields far more per acre than industrial models.
And it’s all aromatically and aesthetically romantic." That means it smells good and looks good. We were there last summer, and it's beautiful.
"On our farm
we have cows, pigs, chickens, turkeys, rabbits, ducks, lambs, fruit,
honeybees, forests--it's breathtaking choreography, always dancing," p.
119 of The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs.
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