Superb Food Independence Summit . 2022

Have you ever dreamed of living a more sustainable lifestyle? Or perhaps you already enjoy this lifestyle and would like to spend several days with other like minded enthusiasts. Join us as we connect to learn more about food growing, harvesting, preservation and preparation. We are excited to host Joel Salatin and Justin Rhodes, who will be sharing their expert advice along with other up and coming experts. There will be food, fun and exhibits for all! 17 and under enter free!

Justin is a Permaculturalist, film producer, author and teacher. He helps folks learn to work with nature to produce their own sustenance so they can live a more abundant life.

He is a seasoned homesteader having enjoyed many years of practicing “beyond organic” and permaculture methods on our 75 acre family farm near Asheville NC. Justin trained under the highly accredited Geff Lawton of PRI Australia for his Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) and has studied natural chicken care under popular author, Pat Foremen.

Justin founded Abundant Permaculture out of a love of teaching and the sustainable movement. Here, you’ll find exhaustive permaculture articles, plentiful photo’s, cinematic educational films and business tip and tricks.

Joel Salatin, 64, calls himself a Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer. Others who like him call him the most famous farmer in the world, the high priest of the pasture, and the most eclectic thinker from Virginia since Thomas Jefferson. Those who don’t like him call him a bio-terrorist, Typhoid Mary, charlatan, and starvation advocate.

With a room full of debate trophies from high school and college days, 15 published books, and a thriving multi-generational family farm, he draws on a lifetime of food, farming and fantasy to entertain and inspire audiences around the world. He’s as comfortable moving cows in a pasture as addressing CEOs in a Wall Street business conference.

His wide-ranging topics include nitty-gritty how-to for profitable regenerative farming as well as cultural philosophy like orthodoxy vs. heresy. A wordsmith and master communicator, he moves audiences from laughs one minute to tears the next, from frustration to hopefulness. Often receiving standing ovations, he prefers the word performance rather than presentation to describe his lectures. His favorite activity?–Q&A. “I love the interaction,” he says.

He co-owns, with his family, Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia. Featured in the New York Times bestseller Omnivore’s Dilemma and award-winning documentary Food Inc., the farm services more than 5,000 families, 50 restaurants, 10 retail outlets, and a farmers’ market with salad bar beef, pigaerator pork, pastured poultry, and forestry products. When he’s not on the road speaking, he’s at home on the farm, keeping the callouses on his hands and dirt under his fingernails, mentoring young people, inspiring visitors, and promoting local, regenerative food and farming systems.

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