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Celebration! At Polyface Farm
Farmstead Breakfast, Lunch, and Premium Tour
with Joel Salatin and Family
Polyface Farm | Swoope, Virginia
Saturday, September 7, 2013 | 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m..
Experience the early morning magic of Polyface with a farmstead breakfast and an indepth 2½ hour haywagon tour with America’s most famous farmer, Joel Salatin. The tour will be followed by a winetasting and gourmet farm-to-fork lunch buffet with the Salatin family, staff and interns. You’ll have plenty of time to spend your $10 gift certificate at the Polyface Farm Store!
Gift option for donation of $250 or $100 for children 10 and under. Lap children attend free.
Reserve your seat now! Since this is a managed grazing operation, and our donors will be
“grazing” for the day, 300 donors is the capacity for this event. Any more cars and people would affect the grazing patterns of all the Polyface critters, so donate now to attend!
Use this link if you'd like to purchase Polyface tickets after the August 20, 2013 cut-off date.
Tickets are available (space permitting) through September 6, 2013 for 350/adult and $100/child (ages 3 - 10).
YOUR DAY AT POLYFACE WILL INCLUDE
- Farmstead Breakfast with Polyface Fare
- 2 ½ hour Premium Haywagon Tour with Joel Salatin
- Farmstead Lunch with the Salatin Family, Staff and Interns
- Winetasting – Virginia and Organic Wines
- $10 Polyface Farm Store Gift Certificate
- Children’s Activities
- 6 Hours of Polyface Bliss!
- Remarks by Pete Kennedy, FTCLDF President and Special Guests including Sally Fallon Morell.
WHO IS JOEL SALATIN?
Joel Salatin is an ambassador for sustainable agriculture and robust direct-to-consumer farm sales. He has been featured in the bestselling Omnivore’s Dilemma and a host of documentaries such as Food Inc., Fresh, Farmageddon and most recently American Meat. He’s the author of eight books, including the internationally acclaimed Folks, This Ain’t Normal, a wakeup call to Americans and the world about how we’ve been
“snookered” into accepting fake food as real.
Real food is readily apparent at Polyface Farm, a pasture-based rotational grazing farm that serves as a model and inspiration to farmers everywhere. You’ll witness firsthand the genius of the man, the principles that guide Polyface food production and the amazing taste difference.
Caution! Once you taste the grass-fed difference, you just won’t be able to settle for conventionally raised meats again.
All food is not made equal, and the special care, and dare we say it, LOVE that the Salatin family brings to the table will be readily apparent to your taste buds!
SEE WHAT’S IN STORE FOR YOU!
Upon arriving you’ll be served a delicious farm-fresh breakfast made with meat and eggs raised on Polyface. Then, you’ll hop aboard a haywagon for a 2½ tour guided by Joel himself! This tour will visit all the important aspects of his farming operation. You’ll see first-hand what Joel describes as the “Ballet on the Pasture” - salad bar beef, an ingenious pigaerator pork operation, pastured poultry – both layers and broilers - and likely pastured turkeys at that time of year.
When the tour returns lunch will be served! Our Polyface lunch is legendary. Local farm-to-fork wizard chef Mike Lund puts on a spread you won’t believe, with everything fresh and local, and all the eggs, meat and poultry from the land you’ll be lunching on!
There will be a wine-tasting with Virginia and organic wines,
children’s activity table, exhibits by the Weston A. Price Foundation and the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund where you can purchase a special tee from our popular line of activist wear, and last but not least Polyface Farm store sales. Folks in the past have brought coolers to fill with goodies from the farm store, and we encourage you to do the same - Polyface stands on the principle of local distribution, so they will not ship their food.
Plan to be entertained, stretched and inspired. Joel is engaging and humorous, and his innovative and successful work at Polyface will shake your world-view….no matter how many times you might have heard Joel or seen Polyface, folks always leave with something new to chew on….besides delicious food!
WHAT’S THE JOEL AND FTCLDF CONNECTION?
Joel doesn’t open the farm often for large events, but he loves the FTCLDF! In fact, he’s one of the folks that came up with the idea, inspired by the successes of the Home School Legal Defense Association. He’s a FTCLDF founding member and has availed himself of our legal services a time or two (or three). He affectionately calls the FTCLDF the “The Food NRA”.
WHO ELSE WILL BE THERE? SPECIAL GUESTS!
Sally Fallon Morell, President, Weston A. Price Foundation, author of Nourishing Traditions Cookbook, and founding board member of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund.
Pete Kennedy, Esq. President, Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund.
Elizabeth Gamsky Rich, Esq., Vice President, Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund
Taaron Meikle, Past President, Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund and Farm-to-Consumer Foundation.
John Moody, author Food Clubs and Co-ops Handbook, and Treasurer, Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund
Gary Cox, Esq., General Counsel, Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund
WHERE IS THE FARM?
Polyface Farm
43 Pure Meadows Lane
Swoope, VA 24479
(540) 885-3590
Best to print the directions from the Polyface Farm Website
WHAT’S THE CLOSEST HOTEL?
Since we have an early morning start, our guests like to stay in nearby Staunton, so they don’t miss any of the fun!
We recommend that you make your hotel reservations early! Many of our guests are staying at the historic Stonewall Jackson Hotel. It’s nestled in downtown Staunton, just steps away from antique and gift shops and two local food restaurants. At this time, the special block rate for our group has expired.
Hotel options include:
Stonewall Jackson Hotel
24 S. Market Street,
Staunton, VA 24401
(540) 885-4848
Howard John Express Inn
268 North Central Avenue,
Staunton, VA 24401
(540) 886-5330
Comfort Inn
1302 Richmond Avenue
Staunton, VA 24401
(540) 886-5000
Hampton Inn
40 Payne Lane
Staunton, VA 24401
(540) 886-7000
The Frederick House Bed & Breakfast
28 North New Street
Staunton, VA 24401
(540) 885-4220
Anne Hathaway’s Cottage Bed & Breakfast
950 West Beverley Street,
Staunton, VA
(540) 885-8885
MORE FUN THINGS TO DO
That weekend, we’re also having TWO other special events you may want to consider attending in nearby Staunton, Virginia.
Bacon Palooza – top Paleo chefs vie for your vote with a pastured pork bacon cook-off followed by a screening of American Meat documentary and panel discussion led by director, cinemagrapher and producer Graham Meriwether. Saturday, September 7, 2013 – 6 pm – 10 pm, outside the Stonewall Jackson Hotel. More information
P3: Paleo, Polyface, PorkFest! – join Robb Wolfe, best-selling author of The Paleo Solution-The Original Human Diet, sustainable farming ambassador Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms, and Jenny McGruther, traditional foods educator and author of the award winning website NourishedKitchen.com, for a full-day workshop and exhibit hall, including lunch and an optional breakfast featuring Polyface Pastured Pork on Sunday, September 8, 2013, 8:00 am - 4:30pm at the Stonewall Jackson Hotel. More information
OTHER PLACES TO SEE!
American Shakespeare Theater
The Blackfriars Playhouse
10 S. Market Street
Staunton, VA 24401
(540) 851-1733
(877) 682-4236
Website
Frontier Culture Museum
1290 Richmond Avenue
Staunton, VA 22401
(540) 332-7850
Website
WHAT TO BRING
Coolers - Polyface will not ship your food, so come prepared.
No pets (sorry!)
Prepare for any weather, you'll be outside most of the day.
Check the weather
FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN
This is a great family event! Children 10 and under are $100 each. Lap children (no separate plate) 2 and under are free of charge.
PHOTOS
Michelle Speidel
Angela Potter
Green Cedars Farm - Michael Newman
Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense FundRAISER 2012 Album
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