From my earliest memories, I loved the farm. My grandfather was a charter subscriber to Rodale's Organic Gardening and Farming Magazine and had a huge, well kept garden with an octagonal chicken house in the corner. -Joel Salatin Gardening
It really disturbs me that the environmental movement has been co-opted by creation-worshippers instead of being encouraged by the Creator-worshippers. -Joel Salatin Environmental
Our land-healing ministry really is about cultivating relationships: between the people, the loving stewards, and the ecology of a place, what I call the environmental umbilical that we're nurturing here. -Joel Salatin Environmental
The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is. -Joel Salatin Food
Our biggest fear is that 'Food, Inc.' will move heavy-handed food-safety regulations forward. -Joel Salatin Food
The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it's only in death that life can be regenerated. -Joel Salatin Death
We control health and pathogenicity by complex multi-speciated relationships through symbiosis and synergy. Portable shelters for livestock, along with electric fencing, insure hygienic and sanitary housing and lounging areas, not to mention clean air, sunshine, and exercise. -Joel Salatin Health
We're scared to death to try new things because we think we have to get it right the first time. -Joel Salatin Death
We believe that the farm should be building 'forgiveness' into the ecosystem. What does that mean? That a more forgiving ecosystem is one that can better handle drought, flood, disease, pestilence. -Joel Salatin Forgiveness
Our motto is we respect and honour the pigness of the pig and the chickenness of the chicken. That means not confining them in a house with hundreds of others. -Joel Salatin Respect
There's a short chain between field and fork, and the shorter that chain is - the fresher, the more transparent that system is - the less chance there is of anything from bio-terrorism to pathogenicity to spoilage. -Joel Salatin Chance
Frankly, any city person who doesn't think I deserve a white-collar salary as a farmer doesn't deserve my special food. -Joel Salatin Food
You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people. -Joel Salatin Food
We've created a tenfold core value protocol to make sure that we don't fall into an 'empire' attitude. -Joel Salatin Attitude
