The Ripple Effect Podcast #161 (Joel Salatin | The Freedom To Farm & The Future of Food)
The Ripple Effect Podcast
Ricky Varandas
4.6 • 603 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2018
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Joel is the most famous farmer in the world who has been featured in documentaries like FOOD.Inc and raises livestock using holistic management methods on his farm in Swoope, Virginia, called Polyface Farm.
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| 0:00.0 | believe in the ripple fact. |
| 0:25.6 | The ripple fact. I'm a host, Ricardo Varendez, and today we got What's up, everybody? Another episode of a podcast. |
| 1:13.4 | I'm your host, Ricardo Vrendez. |
| 1:19.6 | And today we got a great guest, somebody I was really excited to finally get a hold of and finally have on the show. |
| 1:21.5 | I've been trying to get him on the show. |
| 1:23.1 | It's probably since the beginning of the show. |
| 1:25.0 | And sometimes that's the way it works. I just happen to give it another try, throw another email, throw another call. |
| 1:30.8 | However, I try to get a hold of guests and somebody gets back to me and they are willing to come on. |
| 1:37.1 | So I was really excited to have Joel Salatin on. |
| 1:39.7 | He's probably the most famous farmer in the U.S. |
| 1:42.7 | I became familiar with his work years ago when he was on the Jorogan podcast. |
| 1:46.1 | This was, I think he was in the 700s on the Jorogun podcast, and I, Joe's now over |
| 1:54.1 | a thousand and something. |
| 1:55.3 | So it was quite a few years ago, but he's also recently been on London Real. |
| 2:00.7 | He's an author of many, many books. |
| 2:03.2 | I mean, you go on Amazon and you can farm, your successful farm business. Everything I want to |
| 2:11.0 | do is illegal. Salad Bar Beef. Just so many, so many books. And I'll put in the show notes, I'll put links to his |
| 2:20.4 | Amazon page where you can see all his books. And just a really interesting conversation. |
| 2:24.9 | We talk everything about the issues with modern farming, the issues with modern food, GMOs. |
| 2:31.5 | We talk about just, not just farming, but everything connected to it from community |
| 2:39.0 | and the benefits of appreciating the food and all that stuff. |
| 2:44.2 | So really smart guy, unbelievably knowledgeable when it comes on to the science of the food and the soil and |
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