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In association with Watershed Landcare, we present an evening with the "worlds most innovative farmer" (TIME Magazine), with introduction by Costa Georgiadis (Costa's Gardening Odyssey).

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: Sydney NSW on 23rd November and Canberra ACT on 24th November
  
• Joel Salatin Workshops: Mulloon Creek 25-26 November and Mudgee 10-11 December
  

About Costa Georgiadis: Costa is a passionate explorer of all things good, green and growing. He is a well known landscape architect and television personality, best known as the host of the SBS TV gardening show, Costa's Garden Odyssey.

About Watershed Landcare: Watershed’s objective is to provide a catalyst for the community through education, co-ordination and support towards the improvement of the socioeconomic and physical environment of our region. Watershed's activities concentrate on improving management of soils, erosion, pastures, grazing, native vegetation, and water quality. Watershed Landcare website.

Milkwood Permaculture is donating all proceeds from this public talk to Watershed Landcare, to help towards creating clean air, soil and water for the Mudgee region.

Pre-sale tickets to this event can be purchased below. A very limited number of tickets will also be available on the door on the night.

Number of tickets

1 Person $30.00 2 People $60.00 3 People $90.00 4 People $120.00 5 People $150.00

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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.