Now on booktv we want to introduce to author joel salatin, the book your successful farm business, you dont write books for a living but a you have written self. Guest yes, 12. But i mainly farm for a living. Host what have your books been about. Guest both how to beef production, chicken production, you can farm, and then some broader cultural things, like offering i want to do is illegal, and folks this aint normal, but our abnormality in our modern day. Nothing like the historical normalcy. Were in an an an abhorrent. And then the sheer ecstasy of being a lunatic farmer and that describes the difference in our farming compared so the average. Tell us about your farm. Guest were in virginia, Shenandoah Valley and were in pastured livestock, so think about tyson chicken houses and smithfield hog factories. So our animals are all out on pasture, and they move every day or every couple of days host that go where they want . Guest no. Theyre controlled with hightech electric fencing but
Cultural things. One of my favorite soul books is the one i wrote, being lunatic farmer and that one kind of really describes the difference in our farming compared to the average. Tell us about your farm. We are in Virginia Valley and we are in pastured livestock, think about tyson chicken houses and factories, so our animals are out on pasture and they move every day or every couple of days, they go where they want . No, they are controlled with hightech electric fencing, we can be thankful for hightech electric fencing so we can mimic choreography of migration times and steer them around the landscape to get the benefit that nature offered for long time before, you know, before domestic livestock were the norm. What are those benefits . Well, in america, for example, you know, the big herds of bison built the deep soils of the prairies and where we live and the valley of virginia, kept it moving, native americans lit fires to attract them and to open up, you know, grazing areas and