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Polyface Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Diversified Everything Swope, Virginia On one 550-acre farm in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, there’s not much that isn’t diversified. The nationally-recognized Polyface Farm is owned by Joel and Teresa Salatin, Joel’s mother Lucille, and includes their children, Daniel and Rachel, and two apprentices who have woven an ecological approach to farming that is convincingly more profitable, […]

Filed Under: Antibiotic Free, Beef and Dairy, Business - family, Business to business: Restaurants and Cafes, Direct: consumer buying clubs, Direct: farm stand, Direct: farmers markets, Diversified, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Grass farming/free range, Hogs, Livestock, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Organic farming, Poultry, Rotational Grazing, Virginia

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