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  • Joel Salatin
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  • Daniel Salatin
    Daniel Salatin
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2025

Joel's Speaking Schedule

SEPTEMBER

  • September 5-6 Ozarks Homestead Expo Springfield,  MISSOURI
  • September 8-9 Private Farm Consult MISSOURI
  • September 12-13 Brownstone National Gathering, Polyface, Swoope VIRGINIA
  • September 20 Polyface Lunatic tour 
  • September 20 Buffalo Gap High School 50th Class Reunion, Polyface, Swoope VIRGINIA
  • September 27 Polyface Lunatic Tour
  • September 27 Rogue Food Conference, Cincinnati,  OHIO                                

OCTOBER

  • October 1 Trinity Broadcasting Network, Nashville,  TENNESSEE
  • October 4  West Virginia Off Grid Living, Survie and Thrive Expo, West Virginia State Fairgrounds, Fairlea, WEST VIRGINIA
  • October 8 EATS Rally, WASHINGTON  D.C
  • October 10-11 Homesteaders of America, Front Royal, VIRGINIA
  • October 16  Virtual Summit:  Organization for Competitive Markets
  • October 18  Organic Butcher 20th Anniversary Celebration, WASHINGTON, D.C.
  • October 23  Healing for the A.G.E.S., Plano, TEXAS
  • October 24  Nonpublic event  MARYLAND                                    


NOVEMBER

  • November 7-8  Pioneer Festival of Hardee County, Sebring,  FLORIDA
  • November 12  Private farm consult, IDAHO
  • November 15 Rally to save Herdshare in North Carolina

                                   

DECEMBER

  • December 2 ACRES USA Madison,  WISCONSIN
  • December 5 Stockman Grass Farmer staff summit, Jackson,  MISSISSIPPI
  • December 11-13 Liberty Food Fest, VERMONT & NEW HAMPSHIRE

                                    

2026

JANUARY

  • January 4-16  Polyface checkouts 
  • January  10  Virtual:  Women's Homesteading Conference
  • January 13  Land Investment ExpoDes Moines,  IOWA
  • January 21 Mars Hill Summit, WASHINGTON D.C.
  • January 22 Creating a Family Farm Legacy Dutch Meadows Farm
    Paradise,  PENNSVYLVANIA davek@dutchmeadowsfarm.com

FEBRUARY

MARCH

  • March 5-12  POLAND
  • March 21 Great Homeschool Conventions, Greenville,  SOUTH CAROLINA 
  • March 28 Great Homeschool Conventions, St. Charles,  MISSOURI

APRIL

  • April 4  LUNATIC TOUR - Joel
  • April 11 Great Homeschool Conventions, Cincinnati,  OHIO
  • April 18  Central Arkansas Homestead Conference, Conway,  ARKANSAS
  • April 24-25  Heritage Homestead Festival, Waco,  TEXAS                                    

  •  MAY
    • May 2  Wired for Healing, Gatlinburg, TENNESSEE
    • May 14-16 Beyond Organic 777, Parkside, WISCONSIN
    • May 22-23 Homesteaders of America Retreat, POLYFACE
    • May 24 Libertarian Party National ConventionGrand Rapids, MICHIGAN
    • May 28-29 Kenosha Regenerative Producers Group, Kenosha, WISCONSIN

    JUNE

    • June 6-7  Home Educators of Virginia Richmond, VIRGINIA
    • June 12-13 Two Days of Truth, Polyface Farm, Swoope VIRGINIA
    • June 17-18 Food Independence Summit, Sugar Creek, OHIO
    • June 19 American Highland Cattle Assoc, Hanover, PENNSYLVANIA
    • June 20 Jackson Ridge Homesteading Festival, Nappanee, INDIANA
    • June 26-28 Modern Homesteading Conference, Coeur d-Alene, IDAHO

    JULY

    • July 11 Great Homestead Conventions, Round Rock, TEXAS
    • July 17-18 1613 Conference, Cincinnati,  OHIO
    • July 24-25  Polyface Intensive Discovery Seminar, Polyface Farm
    • July 27-28 Polyface Intensive Discovery Seminar, Polyface Farm

                                          

    AUGUST

    • August 15 Rogue Food Conference, POLYFACE
    • August 20-21  Stockman Grass Farmer Gathering, POLYFACE                         
    • August 28-29 Brownstone Summit, POLYFACE 

    SEPTEMBER

    • September 5 Smilin D Arena, Belgrade,  MINNESOTA
    • September 12 Modern Home and Hardware, Woodsfield, OHIO
    • September 19 American Pastured Poultry Producers Association, POLYFACE
    • September 25-26 Chelsea Green Authors’ Weekend, POLYFACE

    NOVEMBER

    • November 6-7   Homesteaders of America Women's Retreat, POLYFACE

                                          

    2027

    • June 18-19 South Fork Homestead, Paris,  ILLINOIS
    • July 23 Vest Family Homestead Festival, Elkton OREGON

    2025

    Daniel's Speaking Schedule



    SEPTEMBER

    September 6-7 New Englanders Homesteaders, Swanzey, NH


    OCTOBER

    October 10 - 11 Homesteaders of America Conference, Front Royal, VA

    2026

    Jan 22  NPSAS Food and Farming Conference, Aberdeen SOUTH DAKOTA
    Jan 30-31 APPPA
    April 24-25 TEXAS
    June 5-6 HOMESTEAD FESTIVAL, TENNESSEE
    June 19-20 ILLINOIS
    June 26-27 MODERN HOMESTEADING CONFERENCE, IDAHO 
    Sept 4-5 MISSOURI

    Daniel's Speaking & Consulting Info

    Speaking Protocol:

    To secure him as speaker, send an email to wendy@polyfacefarm.com or call 540-885-3590.

    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 Speaking & Consulting Info:

      Speaking Protocol:


      To secure Joel as a speaker, regardless of venue (non-profit, community group, sustainable agriculture, urban food activism, corporation, college, association), please contact the farm by emailing: Wendy@polyfacefarm.com or call 540-885-3590.

      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.

      If your organization normally uses a speakers' bureau to secure guest lectures, please contact Chartwell International Speakers' Bureau at 972-385-1021 or mackenzie@chartwellspeakers.com. Otherwise contact us directly at polyfacefarms@gmail.com

      We reserve the right to negotiate concessions to these terms per our discretion. For all media inquiries contact Wendy Gray at 540-885-3590 or wendy@polyfacefarm.com

      Consulting Services:


      Engaging Joel for a day of consulting (multi-day discounts) is an investment in his experience and unorthodox creativity. To help pay for it, some folks offer a tag-along option for folks or an evening public event. Most folks just want the individual attention for a day or more. No one can be good at everything; here are Joel’s areas of expertise:

      1.  Landscape design: access, infrastructure, fences, edges, riparian buffers.

      2.  Water systems: access, distribution, capturing, utilization.

      3.  Corrals and livestock handling infrastructure: design, placement, infrastructure.

      4.  Brainstorming possibilities and opportunities: enterprises, margins, profit potential.

      5.  Fertility enhancement: techniques, resources, carbon development, composting.

      6.  Identifying weak links: breakthroughs and break withs; catalysis and inhibitors

      7.  Team building: family relationships, collaboration agreements, non-employee labor.

      8.  Succession planning: articulating expectations, agreeing on vision, roadmap to the future.

      9.  Marketing: what, where, when, how, and to whom.

      10.  Financials: margins, enterprise comparisons, time and motion, project value.

      11.  Multi-species on pasture: symbiosis, infrastructure, logistics, protocols.

      12.  Forestry: income potential, lumber, culling, management.

      Ongoing benefits: All clients receive direct access to Joel for ongoing dialogue, within reason, in perpetuity, gratis.

      Consulting Terms: Honorarium plus travel expenses.

      Daniel's Speaking & Consulting Info

      Speaking Protocol:


      To secure him as speaker, send an email to Wendy@polyfacefarm.com or call 540-885-3590.


      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.

      Speaking Topics:


      Mom…Dad…I want to farm:

      Starting a farm from scratch can be intimidating.  Where do you start?  With barns?  Fence?  Water?  Where do I put all this?  Enjoy this time with Daniel as he walks through the first steps of farm or homestead set up.

       Covering topics like:  

      What’s first?  What livestock should I get first and when?  

      How much time is this going to take?  How much is this going to cost?  And much more.  

      This talk can be for the very new or moved up to the more advanced.  Leaning from Daniel’s 30+ years in the farming world and setting up over 20 farms from scratch will empower you get started or just move forward with confidence.

      Grazing 101:


      In this talk Daniel will cover questions like:

      • How big should I make my paddocks?
      • How many cows can I raise on my farm/homestead?
      • What breeds should I get?
      • Best fencing and water plans.
      • How to improve soil and grow more grass!

        This and much more to help you get started or become more efficient or confident in your cattle production.

        Farm Labor:

        This talk(s) can cover many idea threads.
        • How to run a successful farm “Intern” or teaching program.
        • How to attract and KEEP great staff.
        • Looking at yourself and being ready to lead and or teach a team.
        • Housing, paying, feeding, etc.
        • Working up agreements to pay folks by performance not by the hour!
        • A fun and realistic look at farm labor and why it’s worth it!

          Teaching mentorship is something Daniel is passionate about. Having someone around you that is learning and growing is a wonderful way to live!

          Let’s spend some time talking about how it works.  Getting the most from your beef and pork – Communicating with your local butcher. Learning to speak the same language.

          Consulting:


          Yes, Daniel will come to your farm for consulting!

          From a small homestead to larger farms, some even big enough to be called “ranches”- Daniel can help you get started or just look at your operations or ideas with a fresh set of eyes. But eyes with over 30 years of experience.

          Please email Wendy@polyfacefarm.com for pricing or more information.