A Visit to Polyface Farm in Virginia

Published on June 9, 2010 in Farming, Local and slow money. 2 Comments
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As I was driving up to the KOA north of Harrisonburg, VA I remembered that Joel Salatin’s farm Polyface was somewhere in western Virginia.  Well once Murph and I settled into our site a little visit to Google let me know that we were only 30 minutes away from Polyface, a farm thats sustainable, synergistic model of animal husbandry was made famous by its coverage in Michael Pollan’s eponymous book “Omnivore’s Dilemma”.

Rather than go for a hike in the morning, Murph and I packed up Kodi and drove the winding back roads to Polyface’s front drive.  I had read on the website that “self-guided” tours were available so once I deftly parked Kodi, I ventured up the long drive towards the farm.  There was a lot of activity with several young college-aged folks gathered around a barn full of farming equipment.

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Following signs to the “store” I ended up in the currently under construction farm store.  Wendy was nice enough to give me the low down and I browsed the offerings.  All of the meat, produce and eggs are kept in old refrigerators with masking tape labels.  I love it…..Wendy did say it was in the works to create glass cases, but the mystery of opening a fridge door to pursue the goods has a special sort of mystique to it.

I asked if it was ok to take picture.  LOL…She said “Of course go wherever you want, nothing is off limits.  They are moving the mobile chicken coops in the back pasture now if you want to see that.”  Wait, wait, wait … I can go WHEREVER I want. Who the heck lets people do that anymore.  Guaranteed no industrial producer would let you photograph and tour their facilities un-attended or without signing some restrictive waiver.

The regulars and the summer interns were in the pasture moving the mesh electrical fencing to create a temporary paddock for the egg laying hens to forage upon.  It was so neat to see the team working together and to be honest the interns looked just as excited to be there as I did.  Well Ben used the tractor to pull the mobile henhouse into the new field and then they build fence alleys towards the permanent hen house.  The idea is to open the doors on the permanent henhouse and like the running of the pulls of Pamplona to funnel these birds into the new field.

It is such a neat set up.  The cows graze the field first, eating the long grass and leaving their piles of manure to mature in the open Virginia air.  Flies and beetles have there way with the piles for 3 days and let their larva get good and fat.  Then the crew moves the cows to a new field and brings the mobile chicken and turkey enclosures into the cow’s old field to feast on the fat larva of the flies and spread the manure around the field as they forage.  What an incredible symbiosis.

Polyface also rears pigs and rabbits as well, with the same attention to quality of life as the chickens and cows enjoy.  To say the least the self-guided tour was an eye opening experience and made me long for a larger piece of land in Central Florida in which to put Salatin’s principles to work.  There was just such harmony and wholeness to the entire operation.  My hat goes of to Joel and his hipster vision and very much look forward to hearing him speak at the conference tomorrow.

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