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Scale Up Through Duplication, Not Size

The benchmark for success seems to be: the bigger, the better. But nature has a way of checking unbridled size.
Scale Up Through Duplication, Not Size
Joel Salatin moves cattle from one pasture to another at Polyface Farms outside of Swoope, Va., in 2024. Jeff Louderback/The Epoch Times
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As an advocate for non-industrial farming, I face consistent and constant pushback from folks who wonder how smaller farms could possibly feed the world. Modern American culture is enamored of big.

Joel Salatin
Joel Salatin
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Joel F. Salatin is an American farmer, lecturer, and author. Salatin raises livestock on his Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley. Meat from the farm is sold by direct marketing to consumers and restaurants.
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