Joel Salatin Endorses Small Farm Republic!
Excerpts from Joel's Foreword
I first reached out to Joel Salatin some years ago when I experienced conflict with Vermont’s Agency of Agriculture over on-farm slaughter. Joel was extremely encouraging and supportive. In 2021, Jackie and I drove from Vermont to Virginia to meet with Joel and propose this book idea. We enjoyed attending church with Joel and his family (two Sundays!), got a farm tour, and attended a Sally Fallon seminar at Polyface Farm. Then I visited Joel again in early 2023 to discuss some finer editing and marketing points. As usual, my kind and humble host rolled out the red carpet—Joel Salatin is an extremely warm-hearted and sincere human being, and I am blessed to know him.
Here is an excerpt from Joel’s foreword for my book, Small Farm Republic:
….Klar is an avowed conservative and finds himself politically aligned with Republicans. But he’s embarrassed by both parties’ failure to understand the practical environmental, economic, and social contributions of small family farms and local food systems….
In his inimical attorney style, Klar takes on climate change, GMOs, aging farmers, carbon credits, solar panels, food safety regulations, school lunches—you get the picture. For each problem that plagues our culture generally and agriculture specifically, he offers a simple solution: small farmers serving local food systems. If this book has a refrain, that’s it. And it’s like a breath of fresh air coming from a politically savvy (he ran for governor of Vermont in 2019) avowed conservative….
This book is prescient and timely. “Food liberty is necessary for any liberty at all.” Amen, John Klar. Conservatives who embrace liberty and freedom can get on the right side of national health and food/farm integrity by embracing this prophetic treatise. All of us can use some good old-fashioned conviction and challenge. You don’t have to agree with every point of the sermon to appreciate the message. Wrestling toward truth is always worthwhile, and I challenge everyone to do that with Small Farm Republic.
Joel Salatin
Editor, The Stockman Grass Farmer
We are also in the NEK…homesteaders, not full fledged farm. We grow much of our own food.
We know how to make and use many hand tools. We cut our hay and mulch with scythes… we cook over a wood stove. We are conservative and now considered pure bloods, and we definitely have never bought into the hype and hysteria brought to us courtesy of those captured by global elitist forces. We need right to farm legislation in this state…. Right to slaughter and sell direct too.