Person of the Year: Joel Salatin's salad days
It’s been quite a year for Joel Salatin. The Shenandoah Valley farmer starred as himself in two popular food documentary films and received a $100,000 award from the Heinz Family Foundation for his creative, eco-friendly practices.
“The big corporate farms can no longer tell us that pollution will always come with farming,” said Foundation leader Teresa Heinz. “Mr. Salatin’s work shows us that is not true, because on his lands, farming is no longer part of the problem; it is part of the solution to a better environment.”
While Salatin's solutions have long been known in Central Virginia, he received a bumper crop of publicity in Michael Pollan’s 2006 best seller, The Omnivore’s Dilemma. In turn, the producers of the documentaries Food, Inc. and Fresh helped make him America’s most famous farmer since George Washington Carver.
"I first experienced him in the 1980s when he premiered his idea of an 'eggmobile' at the first [Virginia Association for Biological Farming] conference," says Tanya Denckla Cobb, associate director of UVA's Institute for Environmental Negotiation. "He was a firebrand and electrified the crowd, receiving a standing ovation. Nobody had ever seen the likes of him. Now the rest of the world is starting to catch up."
4Better Or Worse
Essays
Question of the Week
Real Estate - On the Block
Movie Reviews
On Architecture
Snap: Crozet house whacked for no library
This is the house torn down last year for the planned Crozet replacement library, a $10 million, 20,000 square-foot behemoth that has now been removed from the Count
Visual History Tour: Vinegar Hill destruction 2.0
Behind the Lewis & Clark statue, the Mooney Oldsmobile building, which is now an antique shop on
The Brazen Careerist
Letters
Full Stories List for December 17th, 2009 issue #0850
DRHOOK- Treat the patient: Lab work, tests not first priority
STRANGEBUTTRUE- French hens: Cheapest of the 12 days of Christmas
THE SPORTS DOCTOR- Quit yer Pipe down and give London a chance
4Better Or Worse
News
Jury verdict: RSWA's star witness convicted of attempted extortion
The Rutabaga- Pillory Place: Council augments restaurant smoking ban
On Architecture
Cover Stories
Essays
Letters
Movie Reviews
Question of the Week
Real Estate - On the Block
The Brazen Careerist
