He burst onto the national scene in 2002, when Pollan wrote a paean in Gourmet Magazine to his ingenious pasture-based livestock-rearing techniques. A Black-led urban agriculture effort coincided with-and even preceded-the explosion of farmers’ markets in posh white enclaves, but these rumblings received little notice from the broader food world.įor nearly two decades, Salatin has been the movement’s most famous farmer. Racial and class tensions simmered from the start, but were often ignored. But this was seen as a temporary flaw in an otherwise virtuous movement. The stars tended to be white, and they tended to gear their message to an audience prosperous enough to pay up for better food. He was one of several media darlings of the movement, up there with best-selling author Michael Pollan and Berkeley restaurateur Alice Waters. It was here, in the sustainable-farming boom, that Joel Salatin made a name for himself. Farmers’ markets began to multiply in the United States, the land of the supermarket farm-to-table restaurants became commonplace in our fast-food nation, the very one that gave the world McDonald’s.
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