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Have you ever desired, deep within your soul, to make a comfortable full-time living from a farming enterprise? Too often people dare not even vocalize this desire because it seems absurd. It's like thinking the unthinkable. After all, the farm population is dwindling. It takes too much capital to start. The pay is too low. The working conditions are dusty, smelly and noisy: Not the place to raise a family. This is all true, and more, for most farmers.

A couple working six months per year for 50 hours per week on 20 acres can net $25,000 to $30,000 per year with an investment equivalent to the price of one new medium-sized tractor. Seldom has agriculture held out such a plum. In a day when mainline farm experts predict the continued demise of the family farm, the pastured poultry opportunity shines like a beacon in the night, guiding the way to a brighter future.

Twenty years ago, Joel Salatin wrote You Can Farm, which has launched thousands of farm entrepreneurs around the world. With another 20 years of experience under his belt, bringing him to the half-century mark as a full-time farmer, he decided to build on that foundation with a sequel, a graduate-level curriculum. Everyone who reads (or listens to), and enjoys that previous work, will benefit from this additional information.

From Salatin's point of view, life in the 21st century just ain't normal. In Folks, This Ain't Normal, he discusses how far removed we are from the simple, sustainable joy that comes from living close to the land and the people we love. Salatin has many thoughts on what normal is and shares practical and philosophical ideas for changing our lives in small ways that have big impact. Salatin urges people to take a better look at their food: What's in it, where is it coming from, and how did it get the table?

Joel Salatin is perhaps the nation's best known farmer, whose environmentally friendly, sustainable Polyface Farms has been featured in Food, Inc. and Time magazine. Now, in his first audiobook written for a faith audience, Salatin offers a deeply personal argument for earth stewardship and calls for fellow Christians to join him in looking to the Bible for a foodscape in line with spiritual truth.

For the first time, a farmer and a doctor join forces to empower you to live healthy, happy and free. Farmer Joel Salatin & Dr. Sina McCullough provide easy, practical solutions based on their extensive knowledge of food, health, nutrition, medicine, herbs, exercise, homesteading, and agriculture.

For the first time, a farmer and a doctor join forces to empower you to live healthy, happy and free. Joel Salatin & Dr. Sina McCullough provide easy, practical solutions based on their extensive knowledge of food, health, nutrition, medicine, herbs, exercise, homesteading, and agriculture.What You Get:Instant access to over 200 past episodes + New Weekly EpisodesFarmer Joel Salatin provides decades of agriculture expertise distilled into timeless wisdom and bite-sized adviceDr. Sina analyzes volumes of top-level academic and medical research and breaks it down into actionable, helpful, and ...