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Ep. 7: Joel Salatin: Simple Truths About Man, Nature, Stewardship, & Farming

The Moral Imagination

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Electric Fencing - The First Time in Human History to Duplicate That Idea

"We can take our herd of 500 cows and we can literally steer them across the landscape as precisely as a zero turn mower on a golf course. And that's the first time that's been possible in human history," he says. "So what you do, and I actually use a little bit of electric fencing, but not what you do ... You're using electric fencing, right? So that you're basically dividing up your pasture into certain paddocks or areas." The chickens then free range out from them, spread those out onto the soil surface so they cover way more surface for fertilizer.

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