Joel Salatin Workshop
Event
- Title:
- Joel Salatin Workshop
- When:
- Aug.02.2011
- Where:
- Jamberoo Valley Lodge - Jamberoo
- Category:
- Local Farms + Community
Description
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Join 'the world's most innovative farmer' (TIME Magazine) Joel Salatin for a unique one-day workshop looking at how to make your small farm more ethical, profitable, and deeply integrated with your local community. Joel Salatin is a third generation 'beyond organic' farmer and author whose family owns and operates Polyface Farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. He is known and respected world-wide for his family's innovative and effective farming techniques that allow them to produce 'beyond organic' produce effectively, in a way which regenerates their farmland while making them a profitable right-livelihood. |
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Joel's passion for regenerative agriculture is apparent in every aspect of PolyFace Farms systems. In the time his family has stewarded their farmland, they have actively regenerated its pastures, creeks and forests using forethought and intelligent design, with a heavy focus on animal systems' ability to build topsoil and boost nutrients and diversity when used correctly. |
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The farm produces salad bar beef, pigaerator pork, pastured poultry, forage-based rabbits and direct markets everything to 4,000 families, 40 restaurants, and 10 retail outlets. Processing many of these products on-farm in their open-air production unit, they sell from their on-farm shop and through their innovative 'buying club' system. Following on from his wildly successful 2010 RegenAG tour, this workshop is an opportunity for anyone thinking about farming, or already on the land, to learn how to create themselves a livelihood through a profitable, regenerative farming enterprise which benefits their family, their soils and their community. |
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This one day workshop will cover PolyFace Farms animal systems, including pastured poultry, salad bar beef, forested pigerator pork and the main-frame design of the farm. Also covered will be PolyFace's 'relationship marketing' techniques where the farm interfaces directly with consumers, cutting out the middle men and keeping things clean, honest and real. Joel will also cover how his farm approaches their internship program, providing young people with a chance to learn PolyFace's techniques, while providing the Salatin family with an enthusiastic labor force which further benefits the farm. |
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- PolyFace Farms in FRESH (video)
- Joel Salatin interview on ABC Canberra with Genevieve Jacobs – mp3
- Article on Joel's 2010 RegenAG workshops NSW, including many links to his various interviews.
- Joel Salatin public talk on ABC Big Ideas – video
About this workshop:
Registration: 8.30am workshop hours: 9am - 5pm
This workshop will be held in Jamberoo, a small and beautiful dairying community on the south coast of NSW. Jamberoo is less than 2 hours drive from Sydney and less than 30 minutes from the Southern Highlands and the Hume highway.
Registration for this workshop includes lunch, morning and afternoon tea, all made with whatever local produce we can source. The Jamberoo Valley Lodge also has 45 comfortable guest rooms for those coming from afar. See venue details below if you'd like to stay the night before or after the workshop.
August 1st Film night:
The night before this workshop there will be a film night at Gerringong Town Hall with a screening of The Greenhorns and a talk by Joel Salatin. >> Info and bookings
A note to attending producers:
Take this opportunity to share your wares with like-minded producers, get feedback, and meet potential customers. Please contact Jo on 02 6373 7763 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it after you have booked in to discuss this option.
This workshop is coordinated and run by RegenAG's NSW provider, Milkwood Permaculture. If you have any questions about this workshop feel free to contact Milkwood Permaculture by email or on 02 63737763 for more information.
Venue
- Venue:
- Jamberoo Valley Lodge - Website
- Street:
- 406 Jamberoo Mountain Road
- ZIP:
- 2533
- City:
- Jamberoo
- State:
- NSW
- Country:
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Description
Jamberoo Valley Lodge is nestled at the foot of the mountain in Jamberoo valley, a small and beautiful dairying community on the south coast of NSW. Jamberoo is less than 2 hours drive from Sydney and less than 30 minutes from the Southern Highlands and the Hume highway.
Address:
406 Jamberoo Mountain Road, Jamberoo NSW 2533 - phone 02 4236 0269
Acommodation:
- Jamberoo Valley Lodge has 45 comfortable rooms on site. Please call the lodge to book a room on 02 4236 0269 and make sure you tell them you;re attending the RegenAG event, as all rooms the night before and after have been held for this workshop. The Lodge restaurant will be open for dinner and breakfast if attendees indicate they would like to use it when they book. Jamberoo Valley Lodge website
- Jamberoo Pub, 5 minutes down the road, also has rooms. Jamberoo Pub website
- Kiama, a pretty seaside town, is 15 minutes away and has many accommodation options. Kiama Tourism website
Directions from Sydney:
- South from Sydney via the F6 Freeway bypassing Wollongong to the end of the Freeway. The highway then continues south through Yallah for a couple of kms to the bridge over Macquarie Rivulet.
- You will then see signage for the next turn right to “Albion Park”, “Moss Vale” and “Jamberoo”.
- Take this right turn at the roundabout.
- Continue along this road until you come to a set of Traffic lights. (About 5 kms) Move into the left hand lane at these lights and continue straight ahead for 10 kms (You will pass Jamberoo Recreation Park on your right after 7 kms)
- After 10kms you will come to the “T” intersection of Jamberoo Rd and Jamberoo Mountain Road. There is a dry rock wall on the far right corner with the name Jamberoo in it.
- Turn right here and continue 4km on Jamberoo Mountain Road and we are on the right.
Via The Hume Highway
- South from Sydney via the Hume Highway & take the Bowral turn-off. Follow road signage to Robertson. Continue through Robertson for 3 kms to Laird Pie Shop and turn right onto Jamberoo Mountain Road. Second gear is recommended when coming down the pass.
- Its about 20 minutes from there to Jamberoo Valley Lodge which is at the bottom of the Pass on the left hand side.
Directions from Canberra:
- North from Canberra via the Hume Highway bypassing Goulburn.
- After Marulan take the Moss Vale exit onto the Illawarra Highway.
- Continue through Moss Vale and at the roundabout on the outskirts Take the right hand turn to Wollongong.
- Continue through Robertson to Lairds Pie Shop (about 3kms outside Robertson) and turn right onto Jamberoo Mountain Road. Second gear is recommended when coming down the pass and Jamberoo Valley Lodge Is at the bottom of the pass on the left hand side
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