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Rock Pile to Rich Soil: Regenerative Farming | Joel Salatin

“The climate that has to change is the climate of the mind.”

– Joel Salatin

Joel Salatin joined us today on The StoryField.

In the spring of 1958, a revolution broke out in Venezuela. Locals took over the Salatin family farm and ran them out at the end of a machine gun.

Joel’s dad was 39. Joel was 4. They lost everything.

Back in the States, the family bought the cheapest land they could find: a gullied rock pile in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. The neighbors called it the armpit of the community. The experts said plant corn, buy chemicals and borrow money. Joel’s dad said no to all of it…

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