December 2013 Non-Fiction Chelsea Green

Fields of Farmers: Interning, Mentoring, Partnering, Germinating Joel Salatin

The average farmer is sixty years old. When young people can get in, old people can get out. Approaching a watershed moment, our culture desperately needs a generational transfer of millions of farm acres facing abandonment, development, or amalgamation into ever-larger holdings. Based on his decades of experience with interns and multigenerational partnerships at Polyface Farm, farmer and author Joel Salatin digs deep into the problems and solutions surrounding this land- and knowledge-transfer crisis. This book empowers aspiring young farmers, midlife farmers, and non-farming landlords to build regenerative, profitable agricultural enterprises.