{"id":25,"date":"2008-10-05T22:34:15","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T05:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/?p=25"},"modified":"2008-10-27T20:49:42","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T03:49:42","slug":"christian-libertarian-capitalist-lunatic-farmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/christian-libertarian-capitalist-lunatic-farmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian, Libertarian, Capitalist, Lunatic Farmer!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t guessed by the title, I am referring to Joel Salatin. \u00a0I was able to catch a speech and workshop in La Grande, OR this weekend. \u00a0The event was hosted by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/oregonrural.org\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Oregon Rural\">Oregon Rural<\/a>\u00a0and they filled a conference hall at Eastern Oregon University. \u00a0Joel gave a speech on what it would take to Build a Food System that Works. \u00a0It felt like Joel prepared specifically for this topic and broke down 6 things needed in order for a system to work.During the workshop, he went through a slide show about PolyFace farm. \u00a0This too seemed fresh for the meeting. \u00a0The man just keeps working! <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There were dozens of new practices that popped up during the show. \u00a0Many of us in attendance had read his books so these were like addendum&#8217;s to his books. \u00a0New things included cut up chicken, color coded layers, acorn finished pigs, a hog transit system, and many others that I cannot remember off the top of my head. \u00a0The biggest revelation to me seemed to concern his mob grazing practices. \u00a0I have heard of MIG or Ultra High MIG, but nothing to this level. \u00a0He talked about putting 100 cows on 1 acre for an entire day. \u00a0The trick was growing the grass out to waist high. \u00a0It was a great outing for Hazel and I and we were filled with more than enough inspiration to last the long winter ahead.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t guessed by the title, I am referring to Joel Salatin. \u00a0I was able to catch a speech and workshop in La Grande, OR this weekend. \u00a0The event was hosted by\u00a0Oregon Rural\u00a0and they filled a conference hall at Eastern Oregon University. \u00a0Joel gave a speech on what it would take to Build a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[19,22,20,21],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-joel-salatin","tag-management-intensive-grazing","tag-micheal-pollan","tag-polyface-farms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}