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Local Sustainable (The chores at poly-face farms start even before the sun…
Local Sustainable
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"In the Industrial Food Chain, the typical item of food travels 1,500 miles before its eaten. Compared to that, the Polyface "beyond organic" food chain is incredibly short. " Pg. 211
"Remember, Joel doesnt ship his products. That's what brought me to Polyface in the first place. Joel refused to ship me a steak." Pg. 211
"Originally I thought Joel sold locally just to keep from burning fossil fuels. While that's certainly part of his thinking, it's only part. He see's his farm as part of a local food economy. He want's the sale of his eggs and meat to help out other local businesses, like small shops and restaurants." Pg. 212
He feels selling his eggs or chickens in a chain supermarket supports the industrial food industry, the very thing he's trying to get away from. Pg. 212
The main concern for most industrial farmers is paying for inputs and getting the most possible outputs Pg 192
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The chickens fertilize the grass with there poop supplying it with nitrogen but if the chickens where left in one place they would destroy the grass that grows there because the poop also makes the grown hard Pg 189
But if the chickens where left in one place they would destroy the grass that grows there because the poop also makes the grown hard Pg 189
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Joel moves the pen house (The chicken hen house) over two where the cows were a few days before and then the chickens would have fresh things to eat Pg 190
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Joel explains why the pens don't have floors He says so they could eat the grass and not have to eat anything else and get nutrition Pg 187
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Joel wont sell his food by mail you have to come get his food from his farm so he calls him self beyond organic (Pg 174)
Almost all 300 chickens we'd processed Wednesday morning would be eaten within a few dozen miles of the farm. Pg. 211
Naylor in Iowa is a grass farmer but he use fossil fuels,Artificial fertilizer,Pesticides,Heavy machinery,Feedlots,Antibiotics, and processing plants (Pg 172)
"Once a year he sends out a newsletter to his regular customers. A recent one began with this greeting: "Greetings from the non-bar code people. That kind of sums up the way he looks at himself, his farm, and his customers. They are dropouts from the industrial agribusiness food chain, trying to build a new one." Pg. 212