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POLYFACE FARM AT THE 2008 FIELD DAY

Speaking Protocol

• Joel's honorarium is $3,500 plus expenses for nonprofits, publicly-sponsored seminars, sustainable agriculture groups/businesses, and educational organizations.  His honorarium is $7,000 plus expenses for corporate and for-profit business and organizations, including non-agricultural trade associations. Polyface reserves the right to determine the venue category.
• Daniel's honorarium is $1,000 plus expenses per engagement.
• The honorarium is the same whether it is a 30-minute presentation or an all-day seminar.
• Expenses include travel, meals, lodging, and parking fees.
• We reserve the right to negotiate concessions to these terms per our discretion.
• Normally the hosting organization sells our books on consignment with a commission.

Joel's Bio and Topics

Joel Salatin, 50, is a fulltime farmer in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. A third generation alternative farmer, he returned to the farm fulltime in 1982 and continued refining and adding to his parents’ ideas.

The farm services more than 1,500 families, 10 retail outlets, and 30 restaurants through on-farm sales and metropolitan buying clubs with salad bar beef, pastured poultry, eggmobile eggs, pigaerator pork, forage-based rabbits, pastured turkey and forestry products using relationship marketing.

He holds a BA degree in English and writes extensively in magazines such as STOCKMAN GRASS FARMER, ACRES USA, and AMERICAN AGRICULTURALIST.

The family’s farm, Polyface Inc. (“The Farm of Many Faces”) has been featured in SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, GOURMET and countless other radio,television and print media. Profiled on the Lives of the 21st Century series with Peter Jennings on ABC World News, his after-broadcast chat room fielded more hits than any other segment to date. It achieved iconic status as the grass farm featured in the NEW YORK TIMES bestseller OMNIVORE’S DILEMMA by food writer guru Michael Pollan.

A sought-after conference speaker, he addresses a wide range of issues, from “creating the farm your children will want” to “making a white collar salary from a pleasant life in the country.” A wordsmith, he describes his occupation as “mob-stocking hervbivorous solar conversion lignified carbon sequestration fertilization.” His humorous and conviction-based speeches are akin to theatrical performances, often receiving standing ovations.

He has authored six books, four of them how-to types:

• PASTURED POULTRY PROFITS: Net $25,000 in 6 months on 20 Acres, SALAD BAR BEEF.
• SALAD BAR BEEF, YOU CAN FARM: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Start and Succeed in a Farming Enterprise.
• FAMILY FRIENDLY FARMING: A Multi-Generational Home-Based Business Testament.
• HOLY COWS AND HOG HEAVEN: The Food Buyer’s Guide to Farm Friendly Food, is an attempt to bring producers and patrons together in mutual understanding and appreciation.
• EVERYTHING I WANT TO DO IS ILLEGAL: War stories from the local food front.
• YOU CAN FARM: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start and Succeed in a Farming Business.

His speaking and writing reflect dirt-under-the-fingernails experience punctuated with mischievous humor. He passionately defends small farms, local food systems, and the right to opt out of the conventional food paradigm.

His mother Lucille, wife Teresa, daughter Rachel, son Daniel, daughter-in-law Sheri, grandsons Travis and Andrew, and granddaughter Lauryn, work fulltime together on the family farm.

Joel's speaking topics and titles include:

Daniel's Bio and Topics

Daniel Salatin is the son of Joel Salatin, innovative farmer, writer and speaker.  As the third generation on Polyface farm in Swoope, Virginia, he has grown up in the family business. 

Polyface services more than 1,000 families, 4 retail outlets, and 30 restaurants through on-farm sales and metropolitan buying clubs with salad bar beef, pastured poultry, eggmobile eggs, pigaerator pork, forage-based rabbits, pastured turkey and forestry products through relationship marketing. Daniel has gone from carrying freshly processed chickens while in diapers, to running and over-seeing the day-to-day workings of Polyface.   As a seven-year old he started a pastured rabbit enterprise, which has had its ups and downs but continues today.  Starting the rabbit business gave him first hand experience with marketing, processing, research and development, and the costs of a new business.   

Today Daniel is fully employed by the farm and spends his days orchestrating animal movement, scheduling daily tasks and apprentice training.  At twenty-seven, Daniel is married to wife Sheri and has two sons Travis and Andrew and one daughter Lauryn.

Daniel's speaking topics and titles include:

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