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-Joel Salatin, Editor

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Book Review of Keeping It Green: A Handbook for Creating & Managing Irrigated Pasture

By Joel Salatin

In July’s edition of The Stockman Grassfarmer

“When we started dabbling with irrigation on our farm some 20 years ago I sure wish I’d had Keeping It Green.”

Coming Up

Our grass farming mentors and extended practioner family have some answers!


August 25 - 26, 2022
Swoope, Virginia

The SGF Gathering at Polyface (GAP) will give you VIP access to hobnob and fellowship with some of the best practitioners in the grass farming movement today.  Escape the isolation to build new relationships with like minded producers.  Two full days to soak up information on topics from soils to grazing, finance and marketing.  Visit with a select group of vendors.  Each day enjoy home cooked lunch from the fields of Polyface Farm.
 
 
The SGF family of key presenters who will be present both days includes:
    • Abram Bowerman - Sheep: Corner the Profit
    • Steve Kenyon - Starting from Scratch
    • Daniel Salatin - Ways to Move Livestock without Losing Your Marriage
    • Urban Customers:  Christine Lewis, Cheryl Hilton, Patti Cheatharm - Walking in Your Customer's Shoes.
    • Allen Williams - Growing Your Genetics from the Ground Up
    • Will Winter - Ears Up for Herd Health
    • Joel Salatin - Designing Your Landscape

We’re having a countdown till the 2022 SGF Gathering at Polyface. Savings change every week leading up to it. This week's is about to end and a new special is about to begin. Grab this deal while you can before the change on Sunday.

https://www.stockmangrassfarmer.digital/gap-countdown

GAP countdown

Stockman Grass Farmer 2022 School Calendar

SGF’s Gathering At Polyface

Polyface Farm (Swoope, Virginia) ∎ August 25-26

The SGF Gathering at Polyface will give you VIP access to hobnob and fellowship with some of the best practitioners in the grass farming movement today. Two full days to soak up information on topics from production to finance and marketing. Vendors will be on site and lunch is provided both days. Speakers will be announced soon! See your future issues of SGF for details. Tuition is $600.00 per person or $500.00 for two or more participants.

Grazier’s Business School

Joel Salatin and Steve Kenyon

Jackson, Mississippi ∎ October 18-19

Your production plan and your business plan are two sides of the same coin. To have a successful business they cannot exist alone. When you structure your financial foundation right you’ll see profits every year. Joel and Steve will share their decades of knowledge and practical experience on how to lay the foundation for a successful farm or ranch. Tuition is $650.00

Grazier’s Marketing School

Joel Salatin and Sheri Salatin

Jackson, Mississippi ∎ October 20-21

This school is designed for graziers who want to pocket the other fifty percent of the consumer’s meat dollar.

This school will cover the advantages and disadvantages of on-farm store, on-farm cooking schools, restaurant sales, farmers’ markets, festival marketing, enterprise stacking and metro buying club marketing. Tuition is

$650.00.

Call 800-748-9808 today!

You may also register at www.stockmangrassfarmer.com

New Prices and New Formats 

Our books are now in paperback, PDF, kindle ready, mp3 audiobook, and audible ready. 

https://www.stockmangrassfarmer.digital/books

The Stockman Grassfarmer's "Best of the Best" 2022 Edition 

We have just received the 2022 “Best of the Best” sample editions! These issues are great to hand out at field days or other events. If you would like to have some, contact us at 800-748-9808 and let us know how many you would like to have. Please allow at least three weeks’ notice so they can be delivered on time. Free issues and free shipping in the US!

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Writers Wanted
 
The Stockman Grass Farmer is a reader-driven magazine.  Not only do we like to receive suggestions for articles from our readers we also love to receive articles written by our readers.  We are always looking for producers wiling to share their experiences. What you have learned can be valuable information for someone starting out in grassfed production.   Please send any submissions to [email protected].  We're happy to send you our Writers' Guidelines if you'll drop us an email. 
 
SGF Editors

Download your FREE copy of Joel Salatin interviewing Temple Grandin 

The interview was done at the Homestead Festival on Rory Feek's historic farm in Tennessee June, 2022.  (Joel's August column, Meadow Talk, in The Stockman Grass Farmer Magazine is titled "Thoughts from Temple Grandin."  He uses notes taken during the interview.)

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