'Joel Salatin is probably the most influential farmer of the modern day. Making headlines from the New York Times to the Stockman Grass Farmer, he is articulate, passionate, controversial and entertaining. He was recently in B. C. where the B. C. Association of Farmers’ Markets teamed up with the Richmond Food Security Society for a conference called “Working Together to Strengthen Our Local Food System”
“This is a moment in history in which we can change the way we farm to be transparent and sustainable, creating nutrient-dense, ecologically friendly food,” he said in an interview. Salatin touts the decentralization of food systems from the global and continental scale to what he calls “local food sheds.”
Up to half of all the food grown in North America is lost to spoilage due to processing, packaging, storage and shipping, all products of a food system that is overly centralized, he said.
“By creating local food sheds, with a smaller geographical footprint, what we will end up with is a symbiotic, integrated, collaborative relationship between food systems, the people and the place we live,” he said. Boulevards and yards are spaces that could grow food, space that you seldom see wasted on lawns in countries such as Italy where land is scarce and precious.
“In the U.S. we have 35 billion acres of lawn,” he laughed, but not too hard.'
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