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Family Friendly Farming: A Multi-Generational Home-Based Business Testament

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By: Joel Salatin

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Saving the landscape, rebuilding entrepreneurial rural families, and protecting nutritious food are the themes of this timeless treatise-hence the word "testament." Delving into the soul of the Salatin family's nationally acclaimed Polyface Farm, author Joel Salatin offers Family Friendly Farming as the key to dealing with resource issues, food policy, and social fabric.
With humor and personal stories, he opens his family and farm convictions for all to see, share, and enjoy. Written from his unabashed "Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist" perspective, his ideas are guaranteed to encourage and challenge virtually every "ism" in the culture. It will captivate anyone passionate about healing the land, healing families, and healing the food supply.
For several decades young people have been leaving the family farm. The ones left behind are now responsible for society's greatest resources: clean land and clean food. Anyone dedicated to preserving these resources will find in these pages a nongovernmental, self-empowerment approach to environmentalism and food safety.
The heart of this book is aimed toward parents tired of their Dilbert cubicle at the end of the expressway who want to reconnect with their children through a pastoral lifestyle. It's written for anyone who yearns to grow old working with and being adored by value-sharing grandchildren and honored by passionate, productive adult children. Family Friendly Farming can make any family business more viable and any family more functional.
The ten-chapter section on how to get the kids to love the farm is an invaluable addition to any collection of child-rearing manuals. Salatin moves from the family team-building section into a practical discussion on how to increase income per acre and create new, white-collar salaries without buying more land, equipment, or buildings. He deals with the unique and thorny issues surrounding any family business by using his own multi-generational family farm experience as his base for insight and wisdom.

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Publisher: Polyface
Pub. Date: 1st September 2001
Catalog: Book
Media: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 350
Ean: 9780963810939
Isbn: 0963810936

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can joel salatin be cloned?
~ Written on Sep 15, 2009. out of users found this review helpful.

I bought this book for my uncle, but read it before sending it to him. I had heard of Joel Salatin's farm in "Omnivore's Dilemma" and then got to see him when he spoke at a local University. If you ever get a chance to hear him speak, GO! However, if you don't have the opportunity, but your interest was piqued by the chapter from "Omnivore's Dilemma", this book is a great substitute. Of course most of us can't run off and start a farm but Joel Salatin makes you wish you could. He is unapologetic about everything he does and believes in, and is funny and entertaining while explaining the details of his farming methods. The stories about his innovations, his family and his philosophy are all a good read and you can farm vicariously, then go off to the farmers market and buy cage free eggs with an even stronger conviction to support local farmers.

Good views
~ Written on Dec 14, 2007. 3 out of 3 users found this review helpful.

I am a firm believer in all of Joel Salatin's views and concepts regarding farming, and have personally put into action many of his concepts.

This book, unlike his other books, talks more about the proper philosophy of farming rather than actual methods of farming. Even so, this book is by far worth the money and I highly recommend it.

A must have.
~ Written on Sep 2, 2005. 19 out of 21 users found this review helpful.

I have read all but one of Joel Salatins books and every page is like feasting on chocolate. I have not been able to put them down. His wonderful books underline what is so important to me and they easily explain how to make family friendly farming work for you. No bells, no whistles, just pure simple advice.
His Faith in God shows in all his words, as well as his love for his family and his lifesyle.
We have been trying to find a way out of this rat race that we find ourselves in and want to give our children and ourselves a way to enjoy the land and Gods simple pleasures.
Our dreams have changed, and we are going to do everything we can to make that dream happen for us and our children.
We homeschool already and are ready to take that next step.
Joel Salatins books are the best investment we have ever made in our lives to date.

A long, pendantic denouncement of technology
~ Written on Mar 22, 2005. 35 out of 97 users found this review helpful.

I was excited to receive Joel Salatin's book, Family Friendly Farming, as I also am a Christian in a farming area, and a strong believer in good stewardship of the land. I have now read the entire book. It is simply a wandering diatribe of Salatin's beliefs about farming, with no hands-on, practical information whatsoever. The book is, to say the least, pedantic. Salatin's paradigm (his favorite word, found at least once per page)of farming entails a return to the 1800's, with the use of as antiquated, labor-intensive equipment as possible. Children are to be used as farm labor and, if they do not show enthusiasm, are to be disowned, and the farm given to someone more deserving (provided that someone has no dyed hair, no baggy pants, no earrings, no matted hair -- the list goes on and on). As for retirement planning for farming couples -- just say no. Salatin believes farmers in their 40's and 50's should not plan to financially support their own retirement -- after all, their children (or someone more grateful) will take care of them in their old age. As a medical provider, I was especially appalled that Salatin suggested to parents of autistic children that the childhood vaccines they gave to their children may have caused their condition, and added someone-once-told-me evidence that 90% of children with special needs can be "straightened up" with a diet that avoids processed sugar for a couple of days. Of course, I am one of those women with a job outside of the home, which he venomously denounces.

In deference to our common beliefs, I am placing Family Friendly Farming in our compost heap. Believe me, that is where it belongs.

A Life Changing Book!
~ Written on Sep 30, 2004. 19 out of 20 users found this review helpful.

After reading this book, we have definitively decided to move so that we can begin hobby farming with the goal of creating a life sustaining farm! Joel Salatin's philosophies (from this book, You Can Farm, Pastured Poultry Profits, and Salad Bar Beef) will be the foundation in which we build our family friendly farm. A must read if you are a parent (on the farm or not!), you are thinking about farming, dream of farming, or are already on the farm and want to make your lifestyle more family friendly. Thanks Joel!

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