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Interview with a Polyface Farm Intern

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The real Polyface Farm...how love affects the beauty of the land

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The host meets Grace, a summer intern at Polyface Farm, who is wearing a 'Grass Fed' t-shirt. Grace explains that the internship lasts five months, from May to September. She shares that she graduated high school two years prior and is at Polyface to learn farming, as she aspires to be a farmer herself. She elaborates on how her family started farming chickens in the suburbs, leading them to discover Joel Salatin and Polyface's methods when they realized their local practices were illegal. The host and Grace discuss the core principles of Polyface: manure, compost, wood chips, and the constant, symbiotic movement of animals to build back the land. Grace highlights that the most valuable lesson she's learned is the importance of relationships—with co-workers, animals, and the land—and how these relationships foster life, health, and beauty. She describes the communal living among interns and apprentices, forming tight bonds and sharing meals, creating a rewarding experience.

Goal: The host interviews Grace, a summer intern at Polyface Farm, who shares her experience and what inspired her to pursue farming, emphasizing the value of relationships and holistic land management.

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constant motion of recycling and restoration and building here on the farm it's super duper impressive if you ever get a chance to come to Swope Virginia get on your Google machine there and look up Polyface farm look up Joel Salatin look up some of this farming practices the way that Polyface is doing it is what we're shooting for on our farm with our own little twist it has me and missus Sunny Ridge are gonna work our way into this building and see if we can get an interview with one of their interns it's a really really special thing that's internship that they offer here at Polyface farm I can't leave without meeting somebody and talking to them this is grace grace I'm Josh okay so grace is here on Polyface farm doing a summer internship is that right okay so how long is a summer internship is that four Polyface the internship is five months from okay now you a college student now or that's cool okay and I'm just trying to pursue farming and I want to be a farmer so all right I'm here to polychaetes to learn how to farm so she's finding her way in life which is awesome awesome so tell me what we have in the back here I've already walked people around and showed them but what is this right now we're growing tomatoes and we've got corn growing in some of them and gourds and pumpkins and we just use it all here on the phone now is this for well what will go in here next chickens going here next they're pigs go in here next yep so in the winter we convert them into shelters food for the animals okay because it's too cold for them to stay out in the field right and we leave all the vegetation here for them to eat and break down and turn into a compost cool that way later so the basis of Polyface farm is manure compost woodchips manure compost woodchips yes and movement moving animals all the time constantly moving animals in a symbiotic nature with the land to help build the land back that you destroy because animals destroyed the land right I mean what a lot of people don't understand is that pig gets fat because that pig is taking something away from the land so in order to put that back into the land public face mixes in a what is it a wood chip now let me ask it we're getting ready rained on them we're actually getting rain we're getting soaked we're running in ready this is one of the wonderful things about shooting outside on TV on YouTube so the next thing I want to ask you is how did you find out and what gave me the idea that come here to Polyface…

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