Holy Cows and Hog Heaven - Joel Salatin New softcover book Foreword by Michael Pollan

HOLY COWS and HOG HEAVEN

The food buyer's guide to farm-friendly food

by JOEL SALATIN, foreword by Michael Pollan

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New softcover book, 136 pages, first published in 2004.

Holy Cows & Hog Heaven is written by an honest-to-goodness-dirt-under-the-fingernails, optimistic clean food farmer to:

• Empower food buyers to pursue positive alternatives to the industrialised food system
• Being clean food farmers and their patrons into a teamwork relationship
• Marry the best of western technology with the soul of eastern ethics
• Educate buyers about productions
• Create a food system that enhances nature's ecology for future generations

Holy Cows & Hog Heaven has one overriding objective: encourage every food buyer to embrace the notion that menus are a conscious decision, creating the next generation's world one bite at a time.

About the author

Joel F. Salatin (born 1957) is an American farmer, lecturer, and author. He raises livestock using holistic methods of animal husbandry, free of potentially harmful chemicals, on his Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley. Meat from the farm is sold by direct-marketing to consumers and restaurants.

After graduating from college, Salatin married his childhood sweetheart in 1980 and became a feature writer at the Staunton, Virginia newspaper. He then decided to try farming full-time. His grandfather had been an avid gardener, beekeeper and a follower of J. I. Rodale, the founder of regenerative organic gardening. His parents had bought the land that became Polyface after losing a farm in Venezuela to political turmoil. They had raised cattle using organic methods, but could not make a living at farming alone.His father worked as an accountant and his mother taught high school physical education.

Salatin describes himself as a "Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist farmer". He produces high-quality "beyond organic" meats, which are raised using environmentally responsible, ecologically beneficial, sustainable methods. His philosophy of farming emphasizes healthy grass on which animals can thrive in a symbiotic cycle of chemical-free feeding. Cows are moved from one pasture to another rather than being centrally corn fed. Then chickens in portable coops are moved in behind them, where they dig through the cow dung to eat protein-rich fly larvae while further fertilizing the field with their droppings.

Joel is the author of 6 books including Family Friendly Farming, You Can Farm, Holy Cows & Hog Heaven and Everything I Want to Do is Illegal. He spends a hundred days a year lecturing at colleges and to environmental groups. He visited Australia in late May 2010

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Holy Cows & Hog Heaven by Joel Salatin