Daniel Salatin: Full Farm Homestead Layout (2023)

Daniel Salatin from Polyface Farms talks about optimizing your Homestead layout, how to simplify and streamline operations, along with ideas to help you push through the hard times when running a farm gets tough. This speaker session was filmed LIVE at the 2023 Homestead Festival. (Day 1 / Tent A)
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About Daniel Salatin:
Daniel is multi-generational farmer. He’s grown up in the farming landscape in Swoope, VA. Farming right out of the gate has giving him a lifetime of experience, mastery and confidence that comes from a life’s work and passion. Today he leads an ever-growing team at Polyface Farm. Daniel finds the most joy in his family, teaching, team building, healing soil, farm design, a growing relationship with Jesus, working with livestock and hunting.
Managing the day-to-day flow of the farm, he works with cattle, hogs, meat birds, layers, turkeys, rabbits, sheep, and forestry, but most importantly- People. This keeps him learning something every day in a high energy, outdoor workplace. With over 30 years on hands on experience in the land healing, healthy food growing world, Daniel is practical in his approach and teaching. Learn more at polyfacefarms....

[@mitchellbrown9713]

I saw Salatin in the thumbnail and I thought Joel Salatin would be speaking. It is Daniel Salatin, and while he isn’t as captivating as Joel, he has a great deal of valuable information. I am very grateful for the video.

[@amorestperpe]

Yes, I hope he reviews these videos of himself. He really was belaboring the points which made it hard to listen to.

[@susehendricks6217]

Ha! Yep, it’s hard to find a farm sitter. The reason why we didn’t come, even though we had tickets. All good though. We got work done and I am still loving it at the farmstead. Hopefully next year!

[@makilahduncan556]

Been listening to these as I do chores around the house. Ive done so many landscape drawing of the various suburban properties before installing stuff. I basically can draw them from memory roughly to scale.
It really does help to just wait and see were the sun shines and the rain pools up and focus on what nature is already doing.
Alot easier to give a gentle nudge in the direction she is already going then to build a wall basically.

[@breesechick]

Thanks Daniel!

[@sparktoolife]

Nice talk Daniel,
Thank You. 🙋‍♂️

[@twc9000]

I'm one of those who just bought property a few months ago and this was good information for me. I'm living off the farm and doing as much as I can to automate and have been putting in temporary electric fencing. I have a pond that is near the front of the property and my wife wants to move it to the low ground, but this video made me realize the potential energy stored in a pond on high ground. Any big project like that will be in the 3 to 5 year plan.

[@sparktoolife]

Thank You Daniel. 👍😇👍

[@andreacooley9428]

❤❤❤❤

[@SifiFan]

Whoever put the video board behind the speaker; good job. Very distracting and rude to your speaker.

[@danielb1877]

Absolutely. Hopefully they learn and not do that again.

[@jeffreyaquino6159]

He just needs to talk slower like his pop😊