My worlds collide. 😊 I'm primarily on RUclips for homesteading/regenerative practices - Joel is very well-known in that world. Adam, you are one of the few financial channels I watch and I especially enjoy when you bring on guests who stretch your primarily financial-instrument-focused audience to consider what other investments (in skills, soil, resilience infrastructure, etc) might be an equally important part of their portfolios. When currency and financial instruments fail us, it will be wise to have nonmonetary investments in your pocket as well.
Adam, what Joel and the homesteading tsunami are advocating for is not just appealing to millennials who see no economic future for themselves. We are financially stable tech defectors from the Bay Area who bought small acreage in the midwest in order to begin participating in our own food production. The time will come again when those skills will be necessary and all the paper money in the world will no longer matter. You should encourage your viewers to invest some of their resources in kitchen skills and a small garden at the very least per Joel's recommendation. CIA in Napa has phenomenal week-long kitchen skills boot camps for people in your area. And you can learn anything for free on RUclips!
@@Sarahavbs Ditto. I watch homesteading channels, regenerative farming practices aside from my favorite preachers, John MacArthur, Paul Washer, Voddie Baucham, and found Thoughtful money, which is the only finance channel I watch and have learned so much about things going on in economic markets from this quality show that stays away from hype and is educational and honest. Much appreciated!
We met Joel at a homesteading convention last fall. We were able to enjoy a super intimate storytime where Joel read his own children’s book to my kids and a handful of others. Such an incredible experience! It was an honor meeting Joel!
Joel is my superhero! We worked 2 jobs each for 10 years to buy our farm. I love our soil, trees, plants, hens, bees, etc. We blessl our neighbors that bring us manure, clippings, leaves, etc. Our soil is better then when we bought it. His methods work. 🐤🍎🌳🐝
Really enjoyed this session. I want to take one of Joel's classes. We've been doing veggies in small-time container gardens for 3 years. We had so many delicious tomatoes this year which resulted in a lot of spaghetti sauce. Also, our Japanese eggplant was off the charts. We were finally able to grow some peppers. So good! Thanks Adam😊
It is a sign of our times that our government doesn't want us to have healthy food. And that farmers that care about the soil, livestock and the healthiness of the food they produce have to fight to do the right thing. My tax dollars should be supporting farmers like Joel not standing in their way.
Adam, what a Stoic Man Joel is and brilliant, I wasn’t expecting this. Fantastic idea to bring him on your show. I forwarded it to so many family and friends. Thank you
Adam you continue to deliver the guests who can really influence the thinking of many. At 65 we get our produce mostly from a CSA, locally grown and serving our great RTP area of NC. I started this by gardening and farm stands with my grandparents and aunt in the midwest many decades ago. Many people are the unsung heroes at farmers markets and in other ways.
THIS IS AWESOME!!! I love it when my favorite thinkers talk together like this. Joel inspired my self education to learn about how our modern food systems are failing us (and energy, govt, water you name it)
Keytolifestyle here. I am perhaps one of the few Latinas that has been watching youover tge years. Love your new show & your guests. I dont invest in the stock market, but I follow the money to see transparency in this Gov. I am a Rwaltor & RE investor. am also into permaculture. its all related. Thanks for having Joel I admire both of you.
Thank you so much for having Joel Salatin on your channel! If we want to be healthy and have our families healthy, we cannot afford to not try to grow healthy food without poisonous chemicals, and paying exorbitant prices for it! Very much enjoy your show and that you're bringing on guests to point out there are many more things more important that money can buy, things more meaningful and also provides a good resource to help people watching see there are ways to improve life circumstances that anyone can do that are not dependent on finances. i love gardening and while I understand not everyone does, I encourage everyone to do a little something. It's so rewarding and satisfying!
Have been a huge fan of Joel for years and its so cool to see him on your show. Would be very interesting to see a follow up where you take some of Joel's ideas and lay out ways for folks to invest and help build the future that Joel envisions.
If you'd have asked me in 2019, I would have said it was "woo woo" but my mind is now open! I agree with you Joel, I agree!! Thank for having Joel on, brilliant guest!! Fantastic discussion Thank you Both Brilliant analysis Thank you Gentlemen
Great show! Really enjoy seeing you take things in a different direction and use those interviewing skills with a guest from a different walk of life. You're OUR hero AT! Looking forward to the next surprise video
Dr. Michael Colgan wrote about how organic produce has a much higher nutrition value than conventional produce back in the 1980's. Regarding livestock raised conventionally, the elevated levels of adrenaline and other stress hormones are in the meat. Pasture raised and grass fed are the way to go if health is a priority and far cheaper than dealing with future illness.
Joel has inspired me for years! Is it fate that that one of my other inspiring gurus (sir Adam) has now hooked up with him? We are witnessing peak humanity here folks!!
My own organic butcher here in Brighton in the UK has a wonderful line which is that A Happy Chicken is a Tasty Chicken. He’s right of course. Far less watery. It is more expensive but we eat less of it. Roasting a chicken is really very simple and it lasts the 2 of us for at least 2 days before I make stock from it. Every single word Joel said makes perfect sense. Thankyou for getting him on 🙂
I've had varied opinions on content that podcasters have produced and I've expressed that in my comments. Many of my comments have been shadow banned by Google for obvious reasons "critical of establishment entities". I can honestly say that Adam is the real deal. Thank you sir for having a place to go that gives me hope that people are waking up to the complete capture of our federal agencies.
Love this topic. Thanks for sharing and discussing. We’re only buying regenerative meat at this point in our lives (55 & 57) to support future generations.
When I lived in New Jersey my husband put in aged manure from a local horse farm , fish parts from when he went out fishing and worked it in the soil. We had many earthworms in our soil also. My husband grew the biggest and the best tasting tomatoes I ever ate. What a treat.
My wife and I moved from SoCal to the Midwest a few years ago and purchased a small farm to enjoy the lifestyle that it would provide. Most of the arable land is under contract with a traditional farmer who actually knows what he is doing. Even though retired, we started a naturally-grown (we considered “organic” but the certification process was somewhat onerous, time-consuming and expensive), specialty crop operation on a few acres as an experiment. While we were successful growing and selling our produce locally, and though the farm is within the greater metro area of the second-largest city in the state, we found our market size to be unsustainable economically. This would not have been the case were we within the greater region of an NFL city. Accordingly, our primary challenge was distribution beyond our immediate market. Such a network would be very helpful to the small farm community.
Thank you Adam! Joel has the fix to both sink carbon out of the atmosphere AND grow local economies again. Convinced my parents to get a person to rent my Grandfather's land with rotational mob grazing to build soil again as it was spent due to erosion over the last 50 years due to Joel. Grass is growing big and tall now, farmer is making a great product and the value of my Grandfather's pasture is going up. Great Guest!
Thoroughly enjoyed the talk. I live in South Africa and try and only eat produce from regenerative farms if I can, especially my meat. Totally agree and I think there is some science on it that animals raised humanely and killed humanely provide meat that is more nutritive. The other point is that the fat in regeneratively raised meat is far healthier than commercially raised meat. The ratio of omega 3 to 6 fats is more in favour of the omega 3 fats that most humans are deficient in these days making the saturated fat healthy to eat.
I have even more respect for you than before. God bless you and keep you in perfect peace. "Thy kingdom come thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven." Amen. Amen. Amen. +
Gabe Brown, Greg Judy, Allen Williams, Ray Archuleta, Alejandro Carrillo, Jim Gerrish,... are some other regen farmers; if regen ag interests you. Gabe Brown's Dirt To Soil and Greg Judy's first book No Risk Ranching- tell how they went from debt to out-of-debt by farming regeneratively. Joel's story starts from very poor finances to doing well. Understanding Ag teaches farmers/ranchers to be financially and ecologically healthy.
Adam, as mentioned in earlier comment, this guest and the video expanded your footprint to now include a critical piece of both the economy and the financial challenges. I know the interview did not have time to explore the structural problems with the current agriculture industry (e.g. where bread has gone up 600% to the consumer in the years when the actual pay to the farmer producing the grains has been flat). That is a completely different topic worthy of a future interview. One item I heard you say a couple times during the interview was a feeling of sadness that the younger generations are having to homestead out of necessity. On the surface it may look that way. However, there are many many categories of folks that are choosing to do portions of what Mr. Salatin references. But there are many contributors. From my observations the past year, economic necessity is not in the top five. Many were disillusioned by what happened during the 2020-2022 period, both in terms of lack of resiliency of supply chains as well as the mandates. Others have made a decision to take more responsibility for what they consume along the line of what candidate Kennedy has been espousing regarding the growth in chronic illness. Others just want more quiet and some space to live a calmer life. Certainly there are some that are doing it for economic necessity but I'd submit that is a relative small percentage relative to the other reasons. I'd suggest overall 'health' is the big driver right now. It may tip to economics in the future but not quite yet. Thank you for the podcast. Regardless of political preference, the health of our collective food supply touches everyone everyday so its a topic worthy of your interviews!
Amazing that God recommended this for Israel in Leviticus 25. He knew well in advance that the land needed time to recoup in order to be healthy and useful and he even ordered the Jews to follow this schedule. 1 The LORD spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, 2 "Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land that I give you, the land shall keep a Sabbath to the LORD. 3 For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its fruits, 4 but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the LORD. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard. 5 You shall not reap what grows of itself in your harvest, or gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land. 6 The Sabbath of the land shall provide food for you, for yourself and for your male and female slaves and for your hired worker and the sojourner who lives with you, 7 and for your cattle and for the wild animals that are in your land: all its yield shall be for food. (Leviticus 25:1-7, ESV) That same God through his son. Jesus best for each and every one of Us and has prescribed it in the Bible.
This is a minor point but the commandment was not given to Jews but all Israel. Jews did not come into being until the tribes split. Part of the tribes made a kingdom in Samaria and became known as Israel and the "Jews" as Judah
When I was in Germany I got a plum, just randomly at the grocery store and it was the best plum I’ve ever tasted. The food in America just isn’t the same quality.
If you can find an old University book "Forages; the Science of Grassland Farming" by Heath, Barnes and Metcalfe, buy it. An old book but it is the Bible of sustainable ruminant agriculture
100%! It takes years to reverse and build soil microbiology. This is why the best time to start a home garden was years ago but the second best time is today if you have the property. Regenerative agriculture is just one piece of righting the food you consume, the other is simply producing as much of the food you consume as possible and thus knowing exactly what’s going into it. Big Ag wants to produce the most calorie rich and cheapest food for the cheapest price, they don’t care about balance and they don’t care about nutrient density, flavour, quality, soil health, etc. Corn and soil shouldn’t be such a profoundly large component of our diet and ultra-processed are the antithesis of life and the food that actually nurtures our micro biome and thus our health.
After listening further, this is simply a good intro guest to regenerative gardening but he doesn’t ramble on a ton. There are plenty of channels out there that touch way further on the topic in a more comprehensive manner if people are interested. No Till Growers is a great one, it gets way more into the weeds of permaculture/closed loop farming systems with minimal external support mostly relating to specific pest or disease treatment. At the end of the day it’s about soil health which relates predominantly to humus that is vital to nurturing the soil ecosystem and the plants and livestock that become food. Those plants and animals are also crucial components of the system itself whether it’s livestock to ingest and make available nutrients via composted manure, legumes that nitrogen fix, cover crop that is tilled to compost and add humus, etc.
Good overview, modern food systems are really grim, which is why I want to increase the amount of food I grow. I recall years ago in Australia trying some delicious fruit from the tropical region and they mentioned that these fruits don't transport. They last a day at most. All other animals eat their food on the spot (ok yes squirrels store some) - humans are the only ones to go digging up oil out of the ground, deep freezing stuff, messing around with the basics of life. No wonder people get hooked on junk food when vegetables taste like cardboard! I have a tiny garden - just a few metres - and I am grateful for that (even though I believe it's ridiculous that access to land is so insanely expensive and difficult - in the UK at least - Eastern Europe is another story), but I pack it full of a mix of flowers and veg. Ecological breakdown is making growing harder, for example hedgehogs am have declined by 97%, birds by 67% so there are insane numbers of slugs. Very hard to grow when they eat everything! I will say I'm surprised his agnostic stance on climate change. The facts on the earth's temperature are pretty conclusive, as is the even bigger threat - biodiversity loss.
To tie back to money, is there any way to find the average cost of good health versus bad health for food consumption? Not sure if this gentleman would be that source, or some health doctor. But may make an interesting continuation of this particular concept
Happy animals are better for us is NOT woo-woo! Wagu Beef is premium because the cows have been given TLC during their lives.💙 I quit eating meat because of the horrors animals are subjected to on factory farms. I buy milk & eggs from free-range, organic, pasture raised cows & hens tended on small family farms. Cheese is harder to verify, but I'm working on that. Anyone have suggestions on how to verify the humane, pasture-living of the cows whose milk is in the cheese & whey protein powder we buy? My milk & eggs cost more, but I save $ bc I don't buy or eat any factory produced meats. I added tree nuts, beans, yogurt, & other foods to maintain nutrition, & am always looking for ways to boost or add to my intake of healthy, organic fruits, veggies, & proteins.
@@kateoverdier8716 Hello! I would recommend watching Dr. Eric Berg and maybe Barbara O'Neill. Hav ed been watching Dr Berg for a couple of years now and putting onto practice which has been very beneficial. Joel Salatin was actually on his channel as well. Dr. Bergbacks up a lot of the education he shares with research and is honest about our food systems and is steering people to do what is best for their health, mainly through healthy nutritious food.
Same 25 years ago I learn about the horrors of farming (and the UK the animals are not in CAFOs, and mostly outside, but still) and I couldn't be eating that type of food knowing the life that the dairy cows were put through. Now sadly there are lots of intense chicken farming operations here.
Healthy food is the best investment in the future! You can't eat gold, even if you have a mountain of it! I'm surprised why so few people watched this episode ?!❤ Permaculture is the only solution ❤
History has shown that population will generally be in sinc with food supply. By growing far more food with no nutritional value we now have a planet of very unhealthy people. Returning to a world based on these concepts is really a long game. Like all of our problems two opposing forces battle over near term profit and long term health for us all. Thanks for spreading a vision that is the only way humanity survives before the greed of the market reaches its logical conclusion.
I've been on a Carnivore diet since 2022. I patronize regenerative farmers in PA and GA. I Order every three months beef, eggs, Lamb, and tallow. Talk of ports shutting down does not phase me, because I source locally and eat nothing processed. My health has been excellent and Ive ditched health insurance. I no longer support big corporations, I've learned from brilliant minds on RUclips to be my own bank and have come to realize the most important vote is the one we make with our dollars. Big Agri, Big Pharma, Fed policies and elections will not save you. This is the only way we ditch the oligarchs
🌻"Soils are Not built by 10-10-10 fertilizer." It just takes more profit from farmers! "Most Americans are Angry & Stressed from Nutritional Defiiciences" (paraphrased from Wise Farmer Joe Salatin 🌻 Eat Real Organic Food😋
So if the problem is a lack of crop nutrition due to selection for durability for transport then the question we should be asking is "how do we transport these high nutrient crops without damaging them?"
Such an iconic guest warrants an interview more than twice as long, as it would not only retain the viewers' attention but also inspire future generations.
Great presentation. What can those of us living in high rise, urban settings do? No room for compost/bee hives/backyard gardens, but I want to do something!
Joel is great. Continue on this path with Joseph Lofthouse (Landrace Gardening), ruclips.net/video/Y0sv1aD5hvA/видео.html Julia Dakin on seed importance to nutrition ruclips.net/video/3iYPgEvxFm0/видео.html and Fukuoka (One Straw Revolution) ruclips.net/video/rj7nrOjhMtk/видео.html
Joel is fantastic and he can probably afford to be right over the long haul, But organic farming is most often a sure way to go broke (we are organic farmers since 1994). All around us (In Europe) farmers are moving away from organic, becourse it is not economically viable. Our organic wheat sold last year 2 cents under the price of conventional wheat.
I'm glad to see and hear this information again. Almost makes up for your 'misinformation' when you had a chance to discuss the Federal Reserve, which is not federal or a reserve. The FED is a private bank owned by private banks. The FED made the 'great depression' worse by reducing the money supply and now is making the great inflation worse by buying $7 trillion bonds and mortgages so far
Well that's a deeper question - back 100 years ago it was normal to spend at least a quarter of your income on food, we were less consumerist, shelter was cheaper, cost of living lower.
How can we incentivize more people to get into farming like Joel is a better question. The more we break up industrial farms into smaller wholistically managed farms the better off we will all be, and the cheaper high quality food will be (if for no other reason than more people will have access to the high quality food they themselves produce)
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My worlds collide. 😊 I'm primarily on RUclips for homesteading/regenerative practices - Joel is very well-known in that world. Adam, you are one of the few financial channels I watch and I especially enjoy when you bring on guests who stretch your primarily financial-instrument-focused audience to consider what other investments (in skills, soil, resilience infrastructure, etc) might be an equally important part of their portfolios. When currency and financial instruments fail us, it will be wise to have nonmonetary investments in your pocket as well.
Amen to the new 401k!
Adam, what Joel and the homesteading tsunami are advocating for is not just appealing to millennials who see no economic future for themselves. We are financially stable tech defectors from the Bay Area who bought small acreage in the midwest in order to begin participating in our own food production. The time will come again when those skills will be necessary and all the paper money in the world will no longer matter. You should encourage your viewers to invest some of their resources in kitchen skills and a small garden at the very least per Joel's recommendation. CIA in Napa has phenomenal week-long kitchen skills boot camps for people in your area. And you can learn anything for free on RUclips!
@@Sarahavbs Ditto. I watch homesteading channels, regenerative farming practices aside from my favorite preachers, John MacArthur, Paul Washer, Voddie Baucham, and found Thoughtful money, which is the only finance channel I watch and have learned so much about things going on in economic markets from this quality show that stays away from hype and is educational and honest. Much appreciated!
Well said. Food, water and air will be the currencies of the future
Same collision experienced here!! Haha I was like: WHAT?? Adam interviewing Joel?? No way!! 😂
Support regenerative farming good soil is GOLD!
Joel is a gifted outside the old box thinker.. hug the soil and it will hug you back.
We met Joel at a homesteading convention last fall. We were able to enjoy a super intimate storytime where Joel read his own children’s book to my kids and a handful of others. Such an incredible experience! It was an honor meeting Joel!
Joel is my superhero! We worked 2 jobs each for 10 years to buy our farm. I love our soil, trees, plants, hens, bees, etc. We blessl our neighbors that bring us manure, clippings, leaves, etc. Our soil is better then when we bought it. His methods work. 🐤🍎🌳🐝
I am 69 yrs old, been farming and gardening all my life and still learning. I have listened to Joe for many years.
Thanks for having him as a quest.
Great guest Adam.
The value your guests bring is appreciated. keep this going good man.
Really enjoyed this session. I want to take one of Joel's classes. We've been doing veggies in small-time container gardens for 3 years. We had so many delicious tomatoes this year which resulted in a lot of spaghetti sauce. Also, our Japanese eggplant was off the charts. We were finally able to grow some peppers. So good! Thanks Adam😊
You're a good guy also Adam. Thanks for widening our scopes.
It is a sign of our times that our government doesn't want us to have healthy food. And that farmers that care about the soil, livestock and the healthiness of the food they produce have to fight to do the right thing. My tax dollars should be supporting farmers like Joel not standing in their way.
That guy's a legend. I remember seeing him in the movie Food Inc. Everyone should watch that movie.
YES ! The documentary “Food, Inc” is excellent and it should be shown in every school!
Adam, what a Stoic Man Joel is and brilliant, I wasn’t expecting this. Fantastic idea to bring him on your show. I forwarded it to so many family and friends. Thank you
Adam you continue to deliver the guests who can really influence the thinking of many. At 65 we get our produce mostly from a CSA, locally grown and serving our great RTP area of NC. I started this by gardening and farm stands with my grandparents and aunt in the midwest many decades ago. Many people are the unsung heroes at farmers markets and in other ways.
THIS IS AWESOME!!! I love it when my favorite thinkers talk together like this. Joel inspired my self education to learn about how our modern food systems are failing us (and energy, govt, water you name it)
Keytolifestyle here. I am perhaps one of the few Latinas that has been watching youover tge years. Love your new show & your guests. I dont invest in the stock market, but I follow the money to see transparency in this Gov. I am a Rwaltor & RE investor. am also into permaculture. its all related. Thanks for having Joel I admire both of you.
Thank you so much for having Joel Salatin on your channel! If we want to be healthy and have our families healthy, we cannot afford to not try to grow healthy food without poisonous chemicals, and paying exorbitant prices for it! Very much enjoy your show and that you're bringing on guests to point out there are many more things more important that money can buy, things more meaningful and also provides a good resource to help people watching see there are ways to improve life circumstances that anyone can do that are not dependent on finances. i love gardening and while I understand not everyone does, I encourage everyone to do a little something. It's so rewarding and satisfying!
Such a WONDERFUL interview!! Thank you very much, Adam and Joel 🥰🥰🥰
Have been a huge fan of Joel for years and its so cool to see him on your show. Would be very interesting to see a follow up where you take some of Joel's ideas and lay out ways for folks to invest and help build the future that Joel envisions.
Hands down your best guest ever. Universal truth that we can't eat our stocks and bonds. I could listen to you and Joel go all day.
Thank you Adam...one of our best! You are basically what you eat...
Joel should be our Secretary of Agriculture - stop the poison and food like substances from big ag!
If you'd have asked me in 2019, I would have said it was "woo woo" but my mind is now open!
I agree with you Joel, I agree!!
Thank for having Joel on, brilliant guest!!
Fantastic discussion
Thank you Both
Brilliant analysis
Thank you Gentlemen
Thank you for having Joel here. Amazing!
Great show! Really enjoy seeing you take things in a different direction and use those interviewing skills with a guest from a different walk of life. You're OUR hero AT! Looking forward to the next surprise video
Thank you -- so glad you enjoyed it!
Been a fan of Joel for years. He’s amazing! So glad you had him on your show ❤
Dr. Michael Colgan wrote about how organic produce has a much higher nutrition value than conventional produce back in the 1980's. Regarding livestock raised conventionally, the elevated levels of adrenaline and other stress hormones are in the meat. Pasture raised and grass fed are the way to go if health is a priority and far cheaper than dealing with future illness.
Joel has inspired me for years! Is it fate that that one of my other inspiring gurus (sir Adam) has now hooked up with him? We are witnessing peak humanity here folks!!
My own organic butcher here in Brighton in the UK has a wonderful line which is that
A Happy Chicken is a Tasty Chicken. He’s right of course. Far less watery. It is more expensive but we eat less of it.
Roasting a chicken is really very simple and it lasts the 2 of us for at least 2 days before I make stock from it.
Every single word Joel said makes perfect sense. Thankyou for getting him on 🙂
This was an absolutely incredible interview. Thank you.
I have been gardening for over five years and my soil just keeps getting better and better.
Great to see this one come around! Made a fine pastured boneless pork loin roast from Polyface last week and chicken yesterday.
Love Joel Salatin!!
I've had varied opinions on content that podcasters have produced and I've expressed that in my comments. Many of my comments have been shadow banned by Google for obvious reasons "critical of establishment entities". I can honestly say that Adam is the real deal. Thank you sir for having a place to go that gives me hope that people are waking up to the complete capture of our federal agencies.
Love the content expansion!
Love this topic. Thanks for sharing and discussing. We’re only buying regenerative meat at this point in our lives (55 & 57) to support future generations.
Amazing! I have been a fan of Joel’s and sustainable farming. Happy to see they ship. I just put in an order to Brooklyn.
I grow/raise food in the manner he preaches and can say it works.
When I lived in New Jersey my husband put in aged manure from a local horse farm , fish parts from when he went out fishing and worked it in the soil. We had many earthworms in our soil also. My husband grew the biggest and the best tasting tomatoes I ever ate. What a treat.
Thank you! I am working on doing it.
Love this program
Great addition to the content. Big Ag vs Small Ag is a big topic.
Thank you, Adam, for featuring Joel.
Great Interview Adam. We need more awareness about this topic. Health is wealth
My wife and I moved from SoCal to the Midwest a few years ago and purchased a small farm to enjoy the lifestyle that it would provide. Most of the arable land is under contract with a traditional farmer who actually knows what he is doing. Even though retired, we started a naturally-grown (we considered “organic” but the certification process was somewhat onerous, time-consuming and expensive), specialty crop operation on a few acres as an experiment. While we were successful growing and selling our produce locally, and though the farm is within the greater metro area of the second-largest city in the state, we found our market size to be unsustainable economically. This would not have been the case were we within the greater region of an NFL city. Accordingly, our primary challenge was distribution beyond our immediate market. Such a network would be very helpful to the small farm community.
Thank you Adam! Joel has the fix to both sink carbon out of the atmosphere AND grow local economies again. Convinced my parents to get a person to rent my Grandfather's land with rotational mob grazing to build soil again as it was spent due to erosion over the last 50 years due to Joel. Grass is growing big and tall now, farmer is making a great product and the value of my Grandfather's pasture is going up. Great Guest!
Fabulous interview! Love the important work y’all do on your own and so great together!
Thoroughly enjoyed the talk. I live in South Africa and try and only eat produce from regenerative farms if I can, especially my meat. Totally agree and I think there is some science on it that animals raised humanely and killed humanely provide meat that is more nutritive. The other point is that the fat in regeneratively raised meat is far healthier than commercially raised meat. The ratio of omega 3 to 6 fats is more in favour of the omega 3 fats that most humans are deficient in these days making the saturated fat healthy to eat.
Joel is a LEGEND
Excellent.............I have to post a clip on the nutrient density of pasture-raised animal proteins.
Top top guest! Adam congrats!
Great job Adam for bringing Joel on.
I have even more respect for you than before. God bless you and keep you in perfect peace. "Thy kingdom come thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven." Amen. Amen. Amen. +
An idea whose time has come. Thank you for spreading it!
Great interview
Thank you, thank you thank you❤❤
Gabe Brown, Greg Judy, Allen Williams, Ray Archuleta, Alejandro Carrillo, Jim Gerrish,... are some other regen farmers; if regen ag interests you. Gabe Brown's Dirt To Soil and Greg Judy's first book No Risk Ranching- tell how they went from debt to out-of-debt by farming regeneratively. Joel's story starts from very poor finances to doing well. Understanding Ag teaches farmers/ranchers to be financially and ecologically healthy.
Great guest!
Adam, as mentioned in earlier comment, this guest and the video expanded your footprint to now include a critical piece of both the economy and the financial challenges. I know the interview did not have time to explore the structural problems with the current agriculture industry (e.g. where bread has gone up 600% to the consumer in the years when the actual pay to the farmer producing the grains has been flat). That is a completely different topic worthy of a future interview. One item I heard you say a couple times during the interview was a feeling of sadness that the younger generations are having to homestead out of necessity. On the surface it may look that way. However, there are many many categories of folks that are choosing to do portions of what Mr. Salatin references. But there are many contributors. From my observations the past year, economic necessity is not in the top five. Many were disillusioned by what happened during the 2020-2022 period, both in terms of lack of resiliency of supply chains as well as the mandates. Others have made a decision to take more responsibility for what they consume along the line of what candidate Kennedy has been espousing regarding the growth in chronic illness. Others just want more quiet and some space to live a calmer life. Certainly there are some that are doing it for economic necessity but I'd submit that is a relative small percentage relative to the other reasons. I'd suggest overall 'health' is the big driver right now. It may tip to economics in the future but not quite yet. Thank you for the podcast. Regardless of political preference, the health of our collective food supply touches everyone everyday so its a topic worthy of your interviews!
Amazing that God recommended this for Israel in Leviticus 25. He knew well in advance that the land needed time to recoup in order to be healthy and useful and he even ordered the Jews to follow this schedule.
1 The LORD spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, 2 "Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land that I give you, the land shall keep a Sabbath to the LORD. 3 For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its fruits, 4 but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the LORD. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard. 5 You shall not reap what grows of itself in your harvest, or gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land. 6 The Sabbath of the land shall provide food for you, for yourself and for your male and female slaves and for your hired worker and the sojourner who lives with you, 7 and for your cattle and for the wild animals that are in your land: all its yield shall be for food. (Leviticus 25:1-7, ESV)
That same God through his son. Jesus best for each and every one of Us and has prescribed it in the Bible.
@@mikdailyreview5277 Amen!! Thank you for sharing this!
This is a minor point but the commandment was not given to Jews but all Israel. Jews did not come into being until the tribes split. Part of the tribes made a kingdom in Samaria and became known as Israel and the "Jews" as Judah
@@danielturner9832 absolutely great point.
Thank you! Love your financial stuff and am also happy to see this content as well!
Wow Adam I like your show even more. I have been a Saladin follower for decades. You might want to check out Dr Ken Berry carnivore diet.
Great direction to expand your content. Keep it up Adam!
Great show.
REALLY interesting guest!
Joel is the best
Great guest, thank you Adam T and Joel S! ThumbUp &LeaveAComment 4AIgosAll
Salatin is awesome. Thank you.
Awesome, nice change of pace from the financial but both top of my list of favourite subjects.
Next up..Greg Judy? ;-)
Today vegetables and fruit do not taste the same as 40 years ago
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When I was in Germany I got a plum, just randomly at the grocery store and it was the best plum I’ve ever tasted. The food in America just isn’t the same quality.
Maybe that's why boomers are living so long?
This was fascinating. This guy really makes farming more interesting to learn
Our food starts with soil. Mono crops and farming is so bad.
Thanks!
If you can find an old University book "Forages; the Science of Grassland Farming" by Heath, Barnes and Metcalfe, buy it.
An old book but it is the Bible of sustainable ruminant agriculture
100%! It takes years to reverse and build soil microbiology. This is why the best time to start a home garden was years ago but the second best time is today if you have the property. Regenerative agriculture is just one piece of righting the food you consume, the other is simply producing as much of the food you consume as possible and thus knowing exactly what’s going into it.
Big Ag wants to produce the most calorie rich and cheapest food for the cheapest price, they don’t care about balance and they don’t care about nutrient density, flavour, quality, soil health, etc. Corn and soil shouldn’t be such a profoundly large component of our diet and ultra-processed are the antithesis of life and the food that actually nurtures our micro biome and thus our health.
so true
After listening further, this is simply a good intro guest to regenerative gardening but he doesn’t ramble on a ton. There are plenty of channels out there that touch way further on the topic in a more comprehensive manner if people are interested. No Till Growers is a great one, it gets way more into the weeds of permaculture/closed loop farming systems with minimal external support mostly relating to specific pest or disease treatment. At the end of the day it’s about soil health which relates predominantly to humus that is vital to nurturing the soil ecosystem and the plants and livestock that become food. Those plants and animals are also crucial components of the system itself whether it’s livestock to ingest and make available nutrients via composted manure, legumes that nitrogen fix, cover crop that is tilled to compost and add humus, etc.
Good overview, modern food systems are really grim, which is why I want to increase the amount of food I grow. I recall years ago in Australia trying some delicious fruit from the tropical region and they mentioned that these fruits don't transport. They last a day at most. All other animals eat their food on the spot (ok yes squirrels store some) - humans are the only ones to go digging up oil out of the ground, deep freezing stuff, messing around with the basics of life. No wonder people get hooked on junk food when vegetables taste like cardboard!
I have a tiny garden - just a few metres - and I am grateful for that (even though I believe it's ridiculous that access to land is so insanely expensive and difficult - in the UK at least - Eastern Europe is another story), but I pack it full of a mix of flowers and veg. Ecological breakdown is making growing harder, for example hedgehogs am have declined by 97%, birds by 67% so there are insane numbers of slugs. Very hard to grow when they eat everything!
I will say I'm surprised his agnostic stance on climate change. The facts on the earth's temperature are pretty conclusive, as is the even bigger threat - biodiversity loss.
Adam, Joel and Rick Rule for president!!,
Is 57 too late? It has always been a dream to run a sustainable homestead.
To tie back to money, is there any way to find the average cost of good health versus bad health for food consumption? Not sure if this gentleman would be that source, or some health doctor. But may make an interesting continuation of this particular concept
Love the food > love how he explained how it worked
Happy animals are better for us is NOT woo-woo! Wagu Beef is premium because the cows have been given TLC during their lives.💙 I quit eating meat because of the horrors animals are subjected to on factory farms. I buy milk & eggs from free-range, organic, pasture raised cows & hens tended on small family farms. Cheese is harder to verify, but I'm working on that. Anyone have suggestions on how to verify the humane, pasture-living of the cows whose milk is in the cheese & whey protein powder we buy?
My milk & eggs cost more, but I save $ bc I don't buy or eat any factory produced meats.
I added tree nuts, beans, yogurt, & other foods to maintain nutrition, & am always looking for ways to boost or add to my intake of healthy, organic fruits, veggies, & proteins.
Learn to make the cheeses you eat. Invest in your palate and gut, you will enjoy the journey.
@@kateoverdier8716 Hello! I would recommend watching Dr. Eric Berg and maybe Barbara O'Neill. Hav ed been watching Dr Berg for a couple of years now and putting onto practice which has been very beneficial. Joel Salatin was actually on his channel as well. Dr. Bergbacks up a lot of the education he shares with research and is honest about our food systems and is steering people to do what is best for their health, mainly through healthy nutritious food.
Same 25 years ago I learn about the horrors of farming (and the UK the animals are not in CAFOs, and mostly outside, but still) and I couldn't be eating that type of food knowing the life that the dairy cows were put through. Now sadly there are lots of intense chicken farming operations here.
Healthy food is the best investment in the future!
You can't eat gold, even if you have a mountain of it!
I'm surprised why so few people watched this episode ?!❤ Permaculture is the only solution ❤
His comments about machines vs biology has implications about the future of AI
History has shown that population will generally be in sinc with food supply. By growing far more food with no nutritional value we now have a planet of very unhealthy people.
Returning to a world based on these concepts is really a long game. Like all of our problems two opposing forces battle over near term profit and long term health for us all.
Thanks for spreading a vision that is the only way humanity survives before the greed of the market reaches its logical conclusion.
Unhealthy people = profits for pharma but not necessarily other corpataitons. I guess they just think they will automate everything
I've been on a Carnivore diet since 2022. I patronize regenerative farmers in PA and GA. I Order every three months beef, eggs, Lamb, and tallow. Talk of ports shutting down does not phase me, because I source locally and eat nothing processed. My health has been excellent and Ive ditched health insurance. I no longer support big corporations, I've learned from brilliant minds on RUclips to be my own bank and have come to realize the most important vote is the one we make with our dollars. Big Agri, Big Pharma, Fed policies and elections will not save you. This is the only way we ditch the oligarchs
🌻"Soils are Not built by 10-10-10 fertilizer." It just takes more profit from farmers! "Most Americans are Angry & Stressed from Nutritional Defiiciences" (paraphrased from Wise Farmer Joe Salatin 🌻 Eat Real Organic Food😋
So if the problem is a lack of crop nutrition due to selection for durability for transport then the question we should be asking is "how do we transport these high nutrient crops without damaging them?"
Me thinketh I was almost going to skip past this non financial podcast however., so glad I........did not!@!?😉
Such an iconic guest warrants an interview more than twice as long, as it would not only retain the viewers' attention but also inspire future generations.
Not to worry - I'll have Joel back on again
Great presentation. What can those of us living in high rise, urban settings do? No room for compost/bee hives/backyard gardens, but I want to do something!
Polyface farms influencer.
A happy cow is definitely a more tasty cow
How to invest in a small farm and make it profitable. ?
Cannot say Off the reservation anymore, its racist don't ya know. Great guest here.
Cracker barrel farmer wisdom from Joel? Yes please.
Joel is great. Continue on this path with Joseph Lofthouse (Landrace Gardening), ruclips.net/video/Y0sv1aD5hvA/видео.html Julia Dakin on seed importance to nutrition ruclips.net/video/3iYPgEvxFm0/видео.html and Fukuoka (One Straw Revolution) ruclips.net/video/rj7nrOjhMtk/видео.html
Seeds is a huge one. Vandana Shiva is the guru on that.
God's plan is better than mans plan.
@@davidcotton7858 Amen!
Joel is fantastic and he can probably afford to be right over the long haul, But organic farming is most often a sure way to go broke (we are organic farmers since 1994). All around us (In Europe) farmers are moving away from organic, becourse it is not economically viable. Our organic wheat sold last year 2 cents under the price of conventional wheat.
One might think that the natural system was designed
I'm glad to see and hear this information again. Almost makes up for your 'misinformation' when you had a chance to discuss the Federal Reserve, which is not federal or a reserve. The FED is a private bank owned by private banks. The FED made the 'great depression' worse by reducing the money supply and now is making the great inflation worse by buying $7 trillion bonds and mortgages so far
Who can afford his products?
Well that's a deeper question - back 100 years ago it was normal to spend at least a quarter of your income on food, we were less consumerist, shelter was cheaper, cost of living lower.
How can we incentivize more people to get into farming like Joel is a better question. The more we break up industrial farms into smaller wholistically managed farms the better off we will all be, and the cheaper high quality food will be (if for no other reason than more people will have access to the high quality food they themselves produce)