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Blog Authors are employed or involved with Polyface. However, posts will cover a large genre of topics. Statements, ideas and opinions may differ somewhat from practices, beliefs and vision of Polyface.
Monday’s Chick
Jill enjoys traveling, road trips, camping, photography, cooking, and spending time with her friends and family.
Tuesday’s Chick
Brie enjoys farming, gardening, photography, and cooking.
Wednesday’s Chick
Heather enjoys gardening, farming, cooking, crocheting, embroidery, and being with family and friends.
Thursday’s Chick
Leanna enjoys farming, gardening, knitting, spinning, baking, and anything that has to do with the homesteading lifestyle.
Friday’s Chick
Sheri enjoys family, reading, writing, baking, sewing, scrapbooking, knitting, gardening, canning, and is very active in her church.
Saturday’s Chick
Wendy enjoys farming, cooking, making pies & homemade preserves, gardening, knitting and having fun with her daughter Madelyn.
Sunday’s Chick
Erin enjoys cooking, gardening, knitting, sewing, housework, spinning, being outdoors and spending time with family and friends.
Tag Archives: Joel
Joel: Producing an Audio Book
Note from Sheri: When Joel came to dinner the other night and started talking about his experience with audio recording, I asked him to write it out for us to share. We hope that you might enjoy it as much as we did. Wednesday Evening, August July 27, 2011 I have a new book coming … Read the Rest
WAR STORY
Thursday, Sept. 2 Mark Gresge, owner/chef of L’etoile restaurant in Charlottesville, notified us that Pamela Burke, a Charlottesville City Health Inspector had been in and written up a critical hazard for using eggs from an “unapproved source.” Interestingly, and in totally aberrant behavior, she did not confiscate the eggs on the spot–probably oversight more than … Read the Rest
Thoughts from Joel
A documentary videographer from Spain spent the day at Polyface today, getting pictures of cow moves, poultry processing, feathernet moving, and new pastured poultry salad bars. He interviewed me for an hour and as the conversation went along, he asked: “Is there a war?” He was responding to my explanation of industrial food’s attacks on … Read the Rest
Joel responds
The poor people question is the second most frequently asked questionafter “can we feed the world?” So let’saddress it. First, enough money is in the food system for everyone to enjoy safe,nutrient dense food generally from local sources.When you look at the price per pound of candy, potato chips, TVdinners, and Cocoa-Puffs, you will find … Read the Rest
Joel’s trip to NY with Chris Valerio
Yesterday I flew to New York City to be Chris Valerio’s guest on herBloomberg Television show, airing this weekendat the following times: Friday night at 6:00pm, 8:00pm, 11:30pm ET. The show re-airs Saturday at 1:30am, 2:30am, 4:30am,7:30am, 11:30am, 1:00pm, 3:30pm, 5:30pm, 6:30pm, 10:30pm and Sunday at 12:30am, 3:00am, 4:00am, 6:30am, 8:30am, 9:30am, 11:00am, 1:00pm, 3:30pm. … Read the Rest
Joel’s visit to Washington
“If you just looked inside the USDA, you would find tremendous supportfor local food,” said Senator MarkUdall to me yesterday, June 17. I responded: “I have looked, and it’snot a pretty picture . . . ” then somebody cutoff my microphone and that was the end. I think I have reached the nadir of my … Read the Rest
The Washington Post
More on ABC Nightline from Joel…
The license a story teller uses to include or exclude material can have a huge bearing on the story’s impact. ABC Nightline was out yesterday and did an 18 minute interview but used less than 1 minute of it. And while I’m not asking to hog the time here (no pun intended) I think what … Read the Rest
Fighting for local food at Virginia Tech
Context: Virginia Tech created a new position called a sustainability director in dining services Oct. 1, 2008, and hired Andy Sarjahani to fill it. He has been aggressive and made remarkable changes in a few short months.Last month he exchanged battery eggs from Pennsylvania with Virginia cage-free (a far cry from pastured, but we take … Read the Rest
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