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8/6/2019 Beyond Organic
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Polyace arm services more than 1500 amilies, 10 retail outle
30 restaurants using relationship marketing. Customers can vis
Polyace’s on-arm store on Saturdays, or join a local buying clu
They’re welcome to visit the arm and many have taken up the
Others regularly visit the website or news and recipes. Custom
excited not only by the good ood, but by the stewardship on t
Every six weeks, buying club customers order on-line. They c
rom Polyace’s range o salad bar bee, pasture-based poultry
eggs, pig-aerator pork, orage-based rabbits and pasture-base
The day beore the drop, orders are pulled together in coole
boxes and stored in the walk-in reezer. On the day, orders are t
by bus to dropsites, and exchanged or payment with custome
In 30 minutes to an hour, 30 to 80 orders are handed over.
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US armer J S advocates a holistic, pasture-based approach
and ocuses on the local market. By arming multiple livestock species,
he’s managed to cut down on artifcial inputs. Rby Jubr reports.
Joel Salatin, the brain behind o Polyace.Polyfacefarms
ABOVE: Animals are movedbetween pastures daily, usingportable electric ences.
ABOVE: Jordan Winters’ pasture-raisedchicken in portable chicken houses.
apprs y dspsMore than 40 people have served year-long
apprenticeships with Joel over the past 20
years and his gospel is spreading as past
apprentices set up arms throughout the
country. Jordan Winters took up a one-year
apprenticeship in 2006. During his year in the
Shenandoah Valley, Jordan saw irst hand
the application o methods and principles
he’d read about in Joel’s books as a teenager.
“Perhaps one o the most important lessons I
learned was the need to be innovative and to
keep costs down by reducing the dependency
on the large equipment necessary in
industrial arming,” says Jordan. “This, and
direct customer marketing, are what allow
pasture-based arming to be proftable.”
Jordan, who is 23, has since started raising
his own animals on Winters Grass Farm in
New York State, which he’s working hard at
growing into a ull-time business based on
Joel’s model. Jordan has a small but growing
base o loyal, regular customers who are quick
to share the benefts o his product with
others. In addition to local armer
he has customers who buy directl
the arm and who buy rom buyer
“For the consumer, one o the m
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they can get to know the armer p
check out the arm, and know how
is raised. I they don’t like what the
look elsewhere. This is why the loc
movement has grown alongside t
movement. Rising transportation
course, make local ood more com
While ew people know about g
arming, making public education
necessary, Jordan says support o
ood is defnitely growing. “A rien
runs a vegetable community-supp
agriculture (CSA) project. He has t
down a lot o orders as they can’t k
with demand and Polyace can’t e
“The answer isn’t to get bigger.
what Walmart does. We’d rather se
small arms than just a ew big arm
farmer’s weekly | 5 Ju
Going ‘beyond organic’ makes small farms profitable
Jordan Winters, onethan 40 apprentices Joe
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Cows,chickens,pigs,
rabbitsandturkeysareallfarmedtogetheronpasture.
Thelocalmarketand localrelationshipsareprioritised.
Theaimistofarminharmonywithnature.
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moved requently to new pastur
or “salad bars”, oer landscape
healing and superior nutrition.
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enjoying seasonality and reacqu
ourselves with our home kitchen
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human ingenuity is given moral
and ethical boundaries. Cows ar
herbivores, not omnivores.
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priority. Soil health creates healt
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Polyace Farms appears in a ort
documentary,Food Inc , due to o
in the US in June. It takes a critica
look at the American ood system
contrasting industrial agribusin
with operations like Polyace. Th
movie has the same fnancial ba
as Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth
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Move aside organic and ree-ran
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Joel. “It means your business is lo
That you don’t bring in undocum
oreign workers. That you allow
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riendly. It’s more than just how
miles rom kill to plate. It’s abou
perception o lie and worldview
also using the word “transparenPolyace has a 24/7/365 open do
I you think we’re doing somethi
wouldn’t like at 2am, you’re welc
to come out and see. Don’t wake
up, but you’re welcome to visit.”
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The eggmobile, a portable hen houthat lets layers orage ater cows.
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Contact Polyface farms on (001) 540 887
8194, e-mail [email protected]
or go to www.polyfacefarms.com. |fw
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ABOVE: During summer and autumn, pigs orage in separatepastures, rotated every ew days with electric ence.
LEFT: Pasture-based chickens ollow the cows, oraging or their ood.
Joel with his “pig aerators”. By rootingaround in old winter bedding in thecow sheds, the pigs help aerate it andspeed up the composting process.
‘We want people to
support farms close to home.’
‘Salad-bar beef givessmaller beef farmers an edge.’
ABOVE: A cow enjoyingthe “salad bar”.
RIGHT: Joel Salatin with hisbee herd on Polyace Farm.
Joel Salatin has developed a pasture rotationsystem that produces nutrient-rich grass andmaximises the composting o animal waste.Photos:P olyface farms