Joel Salatin wins Heinz Award for Environmental Leadership

 

Joel Salatin, farmer, author and lecturer, is honored as a Heinz Award recipient for creating alternative, environmentally-friendly farming techniques, spawning a movement towards local, sustainable agriculture that has been replicated by family farms around the country.  Mr. Salatin has developed a new paradigm for agriculture by successfully challenging the commercial production of chicken and beef by food industry giants.  His pioneering agricultural practices inextricably and beautifully interweave a food system with the land and have been embraced by farmers nationally.  Read more at: The Heinz Awards http://www.heinzawards.net/recipients/joel_salatin

 

Joel Salatin will be coming to Santa Barbara as part of the Carbon Economy Course series to teach a 2 day training December 9-11 and give an evening public talk on December 9.

Learn more at www.CarbonEconomySB.com