Polyface Farm

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Polyface Farm is a farm located in rural Swoope, Virginia, United States, and run by Joel Salatin and his family. The farm is driven using unconventional methods with the goal of "Emotionally-, Economically and Environmentally-Enhancing Agriculture". This farm is where Salatin developed and put into practice many of his most innovative and significant agricultural methods. These include, but are not limited to direct-marketing of meats and produce to consumers, pastured-poultry, grass-fed beef and the rotation method which makes his farm more like an ecological system than conventional farming. Polyface Farm is a place where consumers go to pick up their produce.

Polyface Farm was featured in the book The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan as exemplary sustainable agriculture, comparing Polyface Farm favorably to factory farming.