{"id":40,"date":"2010-09-16T15:25:56","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T15:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp_genova\/?p=40"},"modified":"2010-09-16T15:25:56","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T15:25:56","slug":"how-to-learn-more-about-local-food-go-see-joel-salatin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/how-to-learn-more-about-local-food-go-see-joel-salatin\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Learn More About Local Food &#8211; Go see Joel Salatin!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/images\/old\/6a00d8341f728c53ef0134876c2a28970c-800wi.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Salatin\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341f728c53ef0134876c2a28970c \" src=\"\/images\/old\/6a00d8341f728c53ef0134876c2a28970c-250wi.jpg\" style=\"width: 240px; margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Salatin\" \/><\/a><em><strong>I&#39;ve been wanting to meet<\/strong><\/em> Joel Salatin for quite some time now, ever since I read about him in The Omnivore&#39;s Dilemma and watched him in the Food, Inc. documentary.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Joel Salatin<\/strong><\/em> is a third generation &#39;clean food&#39; farmer from Virginia. He describes his family farm, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polyfacefarms.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Polyface, Inc.<\/a>, as a pasture-based, beyond organic, local-market farm and informational outreach in the Shenandoah Valley.&#0160; He is passionate, outspoken and an ambassador for change when it comes to the industrial farm system.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>If you live on Vancouver Island, the great folks at <a href=\"\/2010\/03\/how-to-find-local-fresh-veggies-in-march-at-brambles.html\">Brambles Market<\/a> in Courtenay have organized two opportunities to see Joel Salatin on Sunday, September 26th.&#0160; You can get all the info you need <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcdes.ca\/archives\/1165\" target=\"_blank\">right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"\/images\/old\/6a00d8341f728c53ef0133f44d50e6970b-800wi.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Salatin book\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341f728c53ef0133f44d50e6970b \" src=\"\/images\/old\/6a00d8341f728c53ef0133f44d50e6970b-250wi.jpg\" style=\"width: 240px; margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Salatin book\" \/><\/a> If you live in Vancouver, your chance to meet Joel Salatin happens Monday night, September 27th at UBC.&#0160; Proceeds from ticket sales at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookstocooks.com\/page193.htm\" target=\"_blank\">this event<\/a> organized by Barbara-jo&#39;s Books to Cooks benefit UBC Farm and your ticket price includes a copy of Joel&#39;s book, <em>The Sheer Ecstasy of being a Lunatic Farmer. <\/em>I&#39;ll be at the UBC event, I hope to see you there.&#0160; In November, I&#39;ll be doing a talk of my own in Courtenay organized by Brambles, more details about that soon. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;ve been wanting to meet Joel Salatin for quite some time now, ever since I read about him in The Omnivore&#39;s Dilemma and watched him in the Food, Inc. documentary. Joel Salatin is a third generation &#39;clean food&#39; farmer from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/how-to-learn-more-about-local-food-go-see-joel-salatin\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}