Here’s a great interview with Joel Salatin that digs into his personality as the face of sustainable agriculture.

I need people – theatrics and schmoozing and storytelling are part of my talent.

I spent the better part of a day recently watching and reading about Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms. If you’ve seen Food, Inc., he’s (probably) the most memorable character in the movie; he was for me, at least.

Anyway, what Polyface Farms does, as per wikipedia, is a “method of exemplary sustainable agriculture as being built on the efficiencies that come from mimicking relationships found in nature and layering one farm enterprise over another on the same base of land.” It’s really rather fascinating and Salatin’s farm was brought up a couple of times during the Q&A portion of Michael Pollan’s lecture I was at (and coincidentally was featured in Omnivore’s Dilemma).

To see a bit more about how the farm works, look at how excited the cows are to get to the new grazing area — and note how “mowed” the grass is. And, also learn what “sissy farming” is. I could spend hours listening to him speak on this stuff (and have).

I’m not picking a side on the issue of organic versus industrial farming, but this pro-industrial farming article brings up some interesting points you don’t normally hear about.