Joel Salatin's Talk Topics - January 21, 2011
All tickets provide entry to both of the evening talks, plus the question and answer periods with Joel Salatin and Michael Pollan. We hope that all guests will be able to attend both talks!
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First Talk: 7:00 pm - Joel discusses the ethics and beauty of sustainable farming and eating
Industrial food is aesthetically and aromatically unpleasant from production to supermarket. Although eating is arguably the most intimate thing humans do--next to the act of marriage--during the last few decades Americans have lost their dinner dance partner. Culinary skills and local food connections have been replaced with "No Trespassing" signs, bureaucratic paperwork, unpronounceable labels, bar codes, and beeping cash registers. The soul-satisfying act of eating is now a sterile, manufactured to-do item snarfed up on the run. Amidst this frenetic lifestyle, the neglected dinner dance partner beckons to return . . . at the farm, at farmers' markets, Community Supported Agriculture drop points, and in the kitchen. Polyface Farm's choreographed plant-animal symbiosis heals the landscape, the community, and the eater. A theatrical performance mixing humor and bomb-shell food system analysis, Salatin's stemwinder educates, entertains, and encourages.
Second Talk: 8:10 pm - Joel talks about how his faith informs his farming practices
What does a Bible-based farm look like? Does God care? What do Creator worshippers need to know about creation ethics? As a self-described Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer, Joel Salatin tackles these questions with humor and passion from a lifetime of meditation in the field and desire to bring the farm into captivity with the glory of God.