The Angelicanians amidst their garlic fields with some of their wares!
This write up accompanied Epicure's cover story about the highly celebrated pioneer of natural food, Joel Salatin, who is about to visit Australia. Joel is an American farmer, lecturer, author (The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer; Everything I want to Do Is Illegal; You Can Farm & other titles), and sustainable food activist, who we are fortunate to have visiting here at the end of May as part of the Daylesford- Macedon Produce Harvest Week (May 21-30), in conjunction with Daylesford's The Lake House. Joel will be sharing his stories and information in a series of forums and a dinner/talk, which can can be checked out and booked in for via the Daylesford Macedon Produce website. All of us local farmers are excited about meeting Joel, learning from his shared experience and having our living choices reaffirmed.
The Age Epicure cover, May 11 2010
The local Daylesford-Macedon growers whom Richard Cornish, Epicure journalist, mentions, are all small-scale and mostly certified organic producers and are real life examples of people who run their farms and in fact invest much of their lives/lifestyle in doing so largely by the kind of philosophy Joel Salatin espouses. This includes being mindful about issues such as chemical-free, sustainable farming methods, 'food miles', relocalisation of food and services supply and holistic livestock rearing and processing - i.e. the opposite to mass production and 'factory farming' approaches. We all believe that this approach is an important aspect of the foundations for community strength, building and health.
The Age Epicure Joel Salatin Cover Story - Picture:AFP/Virginie Montet
The Salatin family farm, Polyface, has a remarkable website worth checking out if you want more background information on what Joel and his ways of food production are about. The Polyface farm ethos is stated as this: "We are in the redemption business: healing the land, healing the food, healing the economy, and healing the culture." Polyface produces beef, poultry, eggs, pork, forage-rabbit meat and forestry products. The Salatins describe their farm as a: "Family owned, multi-generational, pasture-based, beyond organic, local-market farm and informational outreach in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley". Fantastic!
Hope you and your family are having an enjoyable and nourishing weekend.
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