Joel Salatin from Polyface Farms – Friday Flashbacks – Epi-75

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🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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In this episode I was joined by Joel Salatin. We discussed some of the biggest challenges to small producers today, how can farmers transition from traditional agriculture to more natural production and increase profits at the same time. We also talked about how homesteaders can adapt some of Joel’s techniques raising small livestock like poultry and rabbits and the importance of ethical slaughter. We then moved in to leader follower grazing systems, helping our local producers and a ton more. Today’s episode of Friday Flashbacks was originally published on 12-16-11 and was originally Episode-805- Joel Salatin from Polyface Farms. The … Continue reading →

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0:00.0	Well, you pull yourself up, they keep bringing you down.
0:08.0	Are they going to bail you out or just run you around?
0:15.0	They said you should have a house, the American way.
0:22.1	Well, hi, folks. This is Jack Spirgo with the American way. Well, hi folks, this is Jack Spirica with the Survival Podcast.
0:26.4	Welcome to an episode of Friday Flashbacks.
0:29.2	After 15 years and hundreds of interview shows, we decided to run them as flashbacks every Friday,
0:34.9	beginning with the oldest of them and going forward.
0:38.4	There's a tremendous library of wisdom in all the great interviews we've done over the year. So sit back and enjoy, whether
0:44.2	this is your first time or even your second time around with today's episode. I'm sure you will
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1:22.8	sign up. Now let's get into today's Friday Flashback. And today we are rewinding back to December the 16th, 2011.
1:31.8	This was originally episode 805.
1:35.5	Joel Salatin from Pollyface Farms.
1:38.3	This is a great interview.
1:40.1	We talked about how homesteaders can adapt to some of Joel's techniques like raising small livestock and poultry, rabbits, and the importance of ethical slaughter.
1:50.8	We moved on to leader follower grazing systems.
1:53.6	We talked about helping local producers by being their customers.
1:58.2	We talked about some of the biggest challenges to small farmers and homesteaders that
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