Polyface Farms in Swoope (pronounced “swope”), Virginia, is a holy grail for farm-to-table junkies like me. While I know their uber-sustainable agriculture practices are at an extremely high level, I ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

SWOOPE – Spring will be here before you know it and with this in mind Polyface Farms is offering a Spring Planning Q&A workshop from 2-4 p.m. on Saturday, March 4. Polyface encourages families to come ...

Where do the ingredients that fill your Chipotle burrito come from? We talked with farmers, suppliers, and supply-chain execs to try to learn the truth. The Salatin family’s Polyface Farms in Swoope, ...

Polyfaces—a documentary directed by Lisa Heenan and Isaebella Doherty — goes deep behind the scenes of Polyface Farm, a celebrated family-run operation located in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. The ...

SWOOPE – About 10 years ago, Dr. Temple Grandin gave Sarah Shafer two big pieces of advice for her twin sons with autism. Only allow them a small amount of time to live in their worlds. Get them ...

How rich is the smell of fermenting manure on Joel Salatin’s Shenandoah Valley spread? A thousand bucks for a few whiffs. That’s what Salatin, 51, the second-generation owner of Polyface Farm, ...

Although the MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR team is currently “hunkered down” in response to stay-at-home guidelines related to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are still planning to host the FAIR at Polyface Farm ...

Today and Sunday, Zeus Digital Theaters and Visulite Cinemas will host four presentations of the premiere of a documentary film titled, “American Meat,” by Graham Meriwether and Leave It Better LLC, ...

Farmer/rancher at Polyface Farms in Swoope, Virginia; author of eight books on food an culture, including Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front, The Sheer Ecstasy ...

In this episode of Mother Earth News and Friends, Joel Salatin met with Charlotte French at the 2019 Texas MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR to discuss how he manages the land on his multifaceted farm. Through ...