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In association with Slow Food Canberra, we present an evening with the "worlds most innovative farmer" (TIME Magazine).

Joel Salatin of PolyFace Farms is a world-leading example of how a small family farm can become an extremely diverse and profitable Local Food producer, and how the benefits of Local Food Systems can create resilience, stability and abundance for both local farmers and the wider community. Joel brings a lifetime of natural and profitable farming experience to this, his first Australian lecture series.

Featured in Michael Pollan’s book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and in the films FRESH and FOOD, Inc., Joel and his family at Polyface Farms exemplify successful small-scale farming and the growing relocalization movement.

Today Polyface Farms arguably represents America’s premier non-industrial food production oasis.  Regarding Nature's design as the best pattern for the biological world, the Salatins learned to arrange the facets of farm life so they don’t operate as independent operations, but rather a system of intertwined cycles.  

Disregarding conventional wisdom, the Salatins planted trees, built huge compost piles, dug ponds, move cows daily with portable electric fencing, and utilize portable sheltering systems to produce all their animals on perennial prairie polycultures.

An electrifying speaker, Joel is also the author of six books including "Family Friendly Farming", "Salad Bar Beef", and his latest, "Everything I Want To Do is Illegal - war stories from the local food front". He is a fulltime farmer of the highly successful Polyface Farms, and recipient of the Heinz International Award for Environmental Leadership.

Other Milkwood Permaculture events with Joel Salatin during his Australian tour:

• Joel Salatin Public talks: Sydney NSW on 23rd November and Mudgee NSW on 9th December
  
• Joel Salatin Workshops: Mulloon Creek 25-26 November and Mudgee 10-11 December
  

About Slow Food Canberra: Slow Food is an international movement that promotes sustainable food and wine culture. Slow Food is also about forming networks between farmers and consumers; learning about our land and its limitations; and seeking to preserve local, regional and national foods and food practices - especially those that are threatened with extinction. Slow Food Canberra website.

Milkwood Permaculture is donating all proceeds from this public talk to Slow Food Canberra, to help towards creating food systems for the Canberra region that are local, clean and fair.

Ticket Options

Full Price $15.00 Concession/SFC members $10.00

Milkwood Permaculture are the proud NSW/ACT providers of the 2010 Regenerative Agriculture Workshop Series, of which this event is a part.