A writer joins hordes of farmers and tourists for a once-every-three-years look at Joel Salatin's pioneering "grass-farming" operation Two weeks ago, I joined about 1,700 farmers, foodies, and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Polyface Farms in Swoope (pronounced “swope”), Virginia, is a holy grail for farm-to-table junkies like me. While I know their uber-sustainable agriculture practices are at an extremely high level, I ...

STAUNTON — It was a windy, sunny day on the farm and the chickens were kicking up dust and clucking away. A group of about 50 people stood outside the "hoop houses" at Polyface Farms and listened as ...

Polyfaces—a documentary directed by Lisa Heenan and Isaebella Doherty — goes deep behind the scenes of Polyface Farm, a celebrated family-run operation located in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. The ...

“No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth.” —Thomas Jefferson Polyface Farm lies gently among the rolling hills of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, near Little North Mountain ...

Producer and co-director Lisa Heenan and co-producer Darren Doherty take time out of teaching a farm workshop in the South of France to answer questions about their new documentary, "Polyfaces," ...

How rich is the smell of fermenting manure on Joel Salatin’s Shenandoah Valley spread? A thousand bucks for a few whiffs. That’s what Salatin, 51, the second-generation owner of Polyface Farm, ...

Those who have read Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma are well aware of Joel Salatin, a third generation sustainable farmer in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, and his Polyface Farm. Reading about ...

Consider that animal waste fertilizes those pastures, that chickens turn problematic insects into dinner and that rooting of pigs and fowl stimulates decomposition and new seed growth. You've replaced ...