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Join us at Fox Hill Bruderhof to hear Joel Salatin and James and Helen Rebanks, prominent advocates of sustainable agriculture from both sides of the Atlantic, discuss the future of farming. They’ll tell how they have learned lessons from the past and from science as they work to build a flourishing ecosystem of animals, plants, fungi, and soil, rejuvenating their land and their communities.
The event will be followed by a complimentary barbecue with meat and vegetables raised at Fox Hill Bruderhof. Farm tours will be available as well, weather-dependent.
Tickets are $15. Children under eighteen get in free.
1:30 p.m. Registration
2:00 p.m. Keynotes from Joel Salatin and James Rebanks
3:30 p.m. Workshops with Joel Salatin, James Rebanks, and Helen Rebanks
4:30 p.m. Barbecue and farm tours
Joel Salatin and four generations of his family run Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia, providing beef, pork, poultry, and forestry products to local families and restaurants. A self-described “Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer,” Salatin has been called the most famous farmer in the world. When he’s not traveling and speaking, he is home on the farm “keeping the callouses on my hands and dirt under my fingernails, mentoring young people, inspiring visitors, and promoting local, regenerative food and farming systems.” Salatin’s books include Family Friendly Farming, Pastured Poultry Profits, Salad Bar Beef, You Can Farm, Holy Cows and Hog Heaven, Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal, The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer, and The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs.
James Rebanks is a sheep farmer and author from Matterdale, Cumbria where his family have lived and worked for over 600 years. He earned a degree in history from Magdalen College, Oxford. A New York Times bestseller, his first book and autobiography The Shepherd’s Life was published in 2015. Since then, he has written three other books.
Helen Rebanks is the author of The Farmer’s Wife, published in 2023. She and her husband, James, work their farm in Cumbria, England, which has become globally recognized through their nature-friendly farming practices and has been a retreat for many, including actor and comedian Nick Offerman. The Rebanks host events regularly at the farm to share their expertise and encourage others to farm sustainably.
