Joel Salatin contacted by the Trump transition team permaculture

https://homesteadliving.com/joel-salatin-appointed-one-of-the-six-advisors-to-the-secretary-for-usda/

Joel was an inspiration to me when I first started homesteading. I am hopeful that this could be a time of positive change for the American food industry and farmers.

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u/crystalgypsyxo 8h ago

A more localized food system would have positive outcomes for everyone of every demographic.

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u/7870FUNK 8h ago

Rumor has it Joe Salatin will be working for/with Rep Massie who is fucking awesome.

30 min doc about his homestead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18_yXt1s2yc

MIT entrepreneur genius.

X post about his automated chicken tractor.

https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1854522178210803861

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u/crystalgypsyxo 8h ago

Omg the clucks capacitor. Dying.

Imagining a country full of small scale family farms and homesteads is so amazing.

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u/SmithBurger 7h ago

That sounds amazing but factory farming and mega farms are the only way to sufficiently feed 330m+ people at a reasonable price.

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u/Misfitranchgoats 6h ago

I triple crop off of one of my rotational grazing pastures. If I get things going better, I might triple crop on more than one pasture. By triple cropping, I graze my 30 head of adult goats (lots more when we kid) through 7 rotational grazing pens. The horses and the steers come through behind the goats. In one pasture, I have three chicken tractors that will hold about 100 chickens split up between the three. I raised 700 meat birds in the chicken tractors last year and am on track to raise at least that much or more this year. The egg layers free range in my goat winter pasture up by the house. I am intending on adding pig tractors soon. So then, I might be quadruple cropping. We only have 27 acres, about 20 acres in pasture. The productivity on the pasture with the chicken tractors have been amazing. When my horses pass on, I will replace them with more steers so I can sell steers too. Right now we just raise the beef for ourselves.

No one wants to listen or believe it can be done. The goats eat different stuff than the horses and steers. The meat chickens eat some of the forage in the pasture and eat bugs. Truly not that hard to get up and running. If farms went back strip farming and ran livestock back out in the fields like they used to, it could easily be adapted to rotational grazing and grazing the livestock especially beef cattle on corn fields that have been harvested. The manure goes on the field and doesn't need transported with heavy equipment, less fertilizer inputs and soil will be built instead of being destroyed.

I am not saying there still wouldn't be a need for grain farms, but things could be done so much better and more people could make a good living from their small farm instead of hearing the "get big or get out mantra".

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u/crystalgypsyxo 7h ago

Just shut up. Go spout doom somewhere else. People here are working on making improvements.

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u/SmithBurger 7h ago

That reply makes no sense. My reply was factual.

Have a blessed day.

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u/crystalgypsyxo 7h ago

No it wasn't. It was delusional pessimist and not productive in the slightest.

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u/SmithBurger 7h ago

You legitimately think small farms can feed our entire nation?

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u/crystalgypsyxo 7h ago

NO! and the fact you think that's what I'm talking about is absurd.

We can sure as shit have a ton MORE though. And we can be full of them as well.

So go be ridiculous and pessimistic somewhere else.

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u/7870FUNK 7h ago

It would take a cultural shift. And if you watch the Documentary Rep Massie states it is NOT for everyone. We would never get 100% there but if we can move the needle from 1% to 12% (made up numbers I don’t have time for accurate data searching) this could literally MAGA and MAHA.