18 Facts About Joel Salatin

Joel F Salatin was born on February 24,1957 and is an American farmer, lecturer, and author.

Joel Salatin's father worked for a major petroleum company, using his earnings to purchase a 1,000-acre farm in Venezuela.

In high school, Joel Salatin began his own business selling rabbits, eggs, butter and chicken from the farm at the Staunton Curb Market.

Joel Salatin then attended Bob Jones University where he majored in English and was a student leader, graduating in 1979.

Joel Salatin married his childhood sweetheart Teresa in 1980 and became a feature writer at the Staunton, Virginia, newspaper, The News Leader, where he had worked earlier typing obituaries and police reports.

Tiring of writing for the newspaper, Joel Salatin decided to try farming full-time.

Joel Salatin condemns the negative impact of the United States government on his livelihood because of what he considers an increasingly regulatory approach taken toward farming.

Joel Salatin is a self-described "Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer", producing meat he describes as "beyond organic", using environmentally responsible, ecologically beneficial, sustainable agriculture.

Joel Salatin is just looking totally afresh at how to maximize production in an integrated system on a holistic farm.

Joel Salatin said that most livestock producers use "Neanderthal management" that exaggerates the amount of land required, and that modern technology allows for far more sustainable land usage.

Joel Salatin has been editor of the monthly agriculture magazine Stockman Grass Farmer promoting pasture-grazed lifestock, and teaches a two-day course on agribusiness marketing in conjunction with this magazine.

Joel Salatin has authored twelve books including Folks, This Ain't Normal, You Can Farm, Salad Bar Beef and Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal.

Joel Salatin has spoken as a farming educator at a wide range of organizations including the University of California at Berkeley, and the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture.

In March 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, on his website, Joel Salatin declared he wanted coronavirus.

Joel Salatin was widely condemned for his comments by the public and his peers.

In November 2019 Joel Salatin wrote a blog post responding to a blog post by Chris Newman, another Virginia farmer and owner of Sylvanaqua Farms, in which Newman critiques the small family farm model and describes an alternative, vertically integrated system rooted in collective ownership.

Joel Salatin said in his article that Newman, who is Black and Native American, was too early in his farming career to know whether he would be successful in the long-term, and that Newman would only "push would-be team players away" by complaining.

Joel Salatin received the 15th Annual Heinz Award with special focus on the environment.