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In association with Sydney Food Fairness Alliance, we present an evening with the "worlds most innovative farmer" (TIME Magazine), with introduction by Kylie Kwong.

Presale tickets for this event are now SOLD OUT. Very limited tickets available on the night. Doors open 5.30pm.

Joel Salatin of PolyFace Farms is a world-leading example of how a small family farm can become an extremely diverse and profitable Local Food producer, and how the benefits of Local Food Systems can create resilience, stability and abundance for both local farmers and the wider community. Joel brings a lifetime of natural and profitable farming experience to this, his first Australian lecture series.

Featured in Michael Pollan’s book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and in the films FRESH and FOOD, Inc., Joel and his family at Polyface Farms exemplify successful small-scale farming and the growing relocalization movement.

Today Polyface Farms arguably represents America’s premier non-industrial food production oasis.  Regarding Nature's design as the best pattern for the biological world, the Salatins learned to arrange the facets of farm life so they don’t operate as independent operations, but rather a system of intertwined cycles.  

Disregarding conventional wisdom, the Salatins planted trees, built huge compost piles, dug ponds, move cows daily with portable electric fencing, and utilize portable sheltering systems to produce all their animals on perennial prairie polycultures.

An electrifying speaker, Joel is also the author of six books including "Family Friendly Farming", "Salad Bar Beef", and his latest, "Everything I Want To Do is Illegal - war stories from the local food front". He is a fulltime farmer of the highly successful Polyface Farms, and recipient of the Heinz International Award for Environmental Leadership.

Other Milkwood Permaculture events with Joel Salatin during his Australian tour:

• Joel Salatin Public talks: Canberra ACT on 24th November and Mudgee NSW on 9th December
  
• Joel Salatin Workshops: Mulloon Creek 25-26 November and Mudgee 10-11 December
  

About Kylie Kwong: Kylie is a well known Sydney chef, restaurateur, writer and TV presenter with a passion for sustainable food systems. Her Billy Kwong restaurant was the winner of the inaugural Sustainability Award in 2009 from the Sydney Morning Herald's Good Food Guide, in recognition of Kylie's environmental concerns.

About Sydney Food Fairness Alliance: SFFA formed in 2005 to coordinate the efforts of rural producers, health professionals, community workers and community-based advocates active in developing a socially, economically and environmentally sustainable food system in the Sydney region. SFFA website.

Complimentary canapes provided by AGAPE Organic Restaurant

Milkwood Permaculture is donating all proceeds from this public talk to Sydney Food Fairness Alliance, to help towards creating food systems for Sydney that are local, clean and fair.

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Milkwood Permaculture are the proud NSW providers of the 2010 Regenerative Agriculture Workshop Series, of which this event is a part.