Joel Salatin's SECRETS to raising PIGS for LAND REGENERATION & PROFIT

Pig raising and pork processing
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Greetings friends! Our time at Polyface Farms continues. And for those of you who aren't
familiar with Polyface, it is a farm located in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia. And it is owned
and operated by Joel Southen and his family. And at this farm, it's everything you envision a family
farm to be and more. It is teeming with life and animals being able to express their natural
characteristics. In our last video, I had the opportunity to join alongside their stewards
in taking care of some of their brawler chickens. And one of the stewards looked like my brother
from another mother, Daniel. But after those chores, we headed back down to Joel's house.
And back down at Joel and Teresa's house, we got to spend some quality time with them,
sitting and having breakfast and eating together. Isn't that where you learn a lot about each other
whenever you can sit and, as Joel says, break bread with one another? Just to be able to hear,
you know, different stories from their childhood and how they've grown up and then how they are,
you know, where they are right now. It was just so nice to connect on that level. It was really
neat to just sit down and have breakfast together with him and his wife Teresa. And to see him and
talk to him in person. He's everything you see on camera and more. He really has a really genuine,
loving personality. And he just, there's just constant information coming out of him. It just
was really neat. And it was also really neat to hear his story about how his family, when he was
just a young boy, about Micah's age, how they had to leave Venezuela because of a conflict that was
going on here. And his family had to leave everything. They had started a farm there and
everything. But they moved up here when his dad was in his 40s and started up the farm in Virginia.
From scratch. From scratch. Like, that's a really hard thing to do. And it just, it's so inspiring
that his dad started again over at, from scratch, middle-aged. And it was just super inspiring.
So after we had breakfast with Joel and Teresa, Joel took us up the mountain to show us his pig
operation. This is a six paddock pig pasture. So we're in the first paddock where they were.
And they've moved successively through. So it's interesting. You can almost do a, like a
time warp, you know. So this is now, they've vacated here, whatever, five weeks ago. Okay.
So this is five weeks of regrowth. And then you can go into the next and next and next and then
where they are. So the point is that this looked just like where they are, you know, a month ago.
Okay. And so by moving them around. So we can walk, what we can do is we can walk through
the succession. We'll end up with the pigs. So here you can see less growth back. All right.
And then you can see here even less growth back. Here, less growth back. And then we can go over
where they are. So when you, you know, here you can see one, two, three, four, five, six.
There's six, six paddocks. We leave them in between five to 12 days. And we use a two-ton
feeder for the half acre. And every time they empty that feeder, they move to the next paddock.
That keeps us honest. So that if the, so as the pigs grow and they eat faster, they move faster.
So the, their stay, the point is that 50, 100 pound pigs for 12 days is the same impaction as
5,200 pound pigs for six days. Okay. And so the idea is to have, and the reason for that is
critical because if you over-impact it, you get nothing but weeds. If you under-impact it,
then it all goes back to brambles and briars and forest. And so there's a sweet spot of
disturbance that moves it towards succession as opposed to, you know, away from succession.
Throughout their growth, how often are you checking on them to make sure that they're
not overgrazing or undergrazing? Well, we check on them every day. Okay. Just to make sure they've
got, you know, water and everybody's in and all that stuff. But, you know, the, these paddocks,
they actually change season to season based on, was it wet when they were in there? Was it dry
when they were in there? Was it, were they in there in May or June or July? And so actually
we, like, if we start with paddock one, then the next time they come in, we might start with
paddock two to offset, you know, so you, so you have the, you have the fast rotation and then
you have this real long rotation, you know, from, from, you know, with year to year. We, we touch
these three times a year. So three times a year, they can go through. And, and again, if we start
in, you know, in early May this year, we won't come to that one until say early June next year.
And we might stay longer, but we won't come as early, you know, so you, you, you fluctuate your,
your movement through. And about every seven years, we have to come in and prune because
the trees, the canopies spread and then they put too much shade and then you don't get anything,
you know, you don't get any growth underneath. And so, you know, if you want, if you want this kind
of growth underneath, you know, as you, as you, as you look at this, if you want this kind of growth
underneath, you can't, you can't have too thick a canopy or you just don't get enough sun to the,
you know, to the floor. So, so, so about every seven years we come in and we prune and we take
out, you know, crooked, diseased, dead, junky trees and leave just, you know, nice straight,
straight trees to upgrade the, you know, the trees that are in the, in the system and,
and, you know, and, and kind of reopen it in the, in the system.
So you leave enough, enough trees for shade and all, but not to shade out too much.
That's correct. Yep. And at the same time that you're producing the meat here from the pigs,
you're also managing and working on the area, the environment together with the pigs. Yes,
that's right. That's right. So the pigs are our, the pigs are, are part of our,
our equipment inventory. Here we go. Hi, Piggles. Hi, Piggles. How are you? How are you, Piggles?
Are you doing good? Yeah. So these pigs,
you know, interestingly, they get more and more gentle. Whoops. Sorry. They, they get more and
more gentle, the bigger they get, because we actually build a relationship with them.
And they learn, of course, to, to trust us. They don't view us as enemies. They view us as,
you know, as caretakers, as friends. And so it kind of creates a different relationship with them.
But yeah, they've been in this paddock. So, so they just came, they just came from that paddock
up there. And now they're in this paddock. And so this is, this is the final paddock
before they go back into the one they started with, you know, six weeks ago.
And what breed is this? Well, these are, these are Yorkshire. Okay.
I thought there was a red one in here, but maybe not. This might be a different group.
We, we have a bunch of these groups. We have about 12 of these pastures. So there's, you know,
there's different groups with different, different kinds of pigs. We're, we're not,
we're not breed specific. We are phenotype specific. So we don't want Arnold Schwarza
piggies. We, we want, we want pigs that have a more torpedo body like that one right there.
That's probably got a little bit of, that's, that's not, you see some spots and some color
in there. He's probably got a little bit of Duroc in him or something, but that's the phenotype
we're looking for. Not quite so blocky and slopes off in the rear slopes off in the front. And
it's got a nice straight and the, and the gate is real nice. A lot of these, these pigs that they,
you know, show for sale, the market hogs today, they look like a, like a square box and they
actually walk real arthritically. And they just don't do well in this case, in this kind of
environment because they've got to, they've got to move around so much and it, and it hurts to
walk. So we need a pig with a, with a, we say we like, we like state-of-the-art 1950s genetics.
There we go. Yeah. Isn't that right pig? Yeah. And with those types of genes,
that makes them more suitable for, for working the environment properly.
That's right. That's right. Yeah. They can put on, put on some fat and they have a, you know,
they have a good gate. I mean, these pigs, when we, when we go to slaughter with them,
we literally just out and drive them down the road. They just, they just go down the road.
They actually walk faster than a cow. Wow. A pig, a pig walks faster than a cow. So they,
they have no, they have no problem walking and, and they're physically fit
because they've been out here exercising. You know, the thing to remember is
exercise, exercise is what makes muscle tissue juicy. So, so, you know, if you think about,
for example, on a chicken, the breast meat is tender, but dry, the loin, the drumstick
is tougher, but moist, right? A cow, you know, the, the, the tenderloin or a pig, tenderloin is a
little tender, but the moisture is in the shoulder. You know, the Boston butt, uh, the cow,
it's in the, the Chuck roast. All right. That's what's moist. And so succulents requires exercise.
That's what moistens the muscle. In fact, my father-in-law used to, you know, uh, raise pigs
like everybody around here back many, many years ago. And, um, all the old timers built their
piggeries with a two, a 24 inch high threshold making the pigs have to jump up in there.
And that jumping up in there to get food, um, exercise their hams and made their hams more moist
and that made them more succulent. Um, so, uh, so a lot of the, the difference in, um, in,
in quality here is not just being able to eat grass and not inhaling fecal particulate all
the time. It's also actually getting the exercise that, that, that creates more succulents in the
meat. And that also makes it more dense. Uh, we've done, we've done tests, displacement tests
with our meat compared to, you know, what comes out of the factory farms and our meat is heavier
per square inch, um, which indicates muscle tone density as opposed to flab. You know,
when the industry said pork, the other white meat, it's just that pork, the other white cardboard,
tasteless, flabby, you know, tasteless junk, uh, meat. Uh, so our pork is actually rose colored
because of the green material and the carotenes in the, um, in, in what they're, in what they're
eating. Yeah. So we don't, we don't do this to save feed. The point is we're not saving any feed here
because we're burning up feed in calories in activity. Okay. But what this does is that it
makes a completely different polyunsaturated saturated fat, uh, um, you know, uh, profile.
It makes a whole different taste profile, different texture profile, different nutrient profile. And
when I talk about taste around the pigs, it always is humbling to realize that if I went in here and
lay down for an hour, they would eat me. They are omnivores. That's why the mafia has pig farms.
So don't go lay down in there, Micah. You're not going to land there.
When kids come, when kids come, they want to come in and pet the pigs. I say,
sure. Come in and pet the pigs, but keep moving. Keep moving. You want them to know that you're
alive. Yeah. Right. So I see you just have one strand of wire here. Does that do a good job
with keeping them in? It does. It does. So that's a great question, Mike. So here's the thing.
Everybody knows that of all the, all the, uh, farm livestock, the, the most, the smartest one
is the pig. The pigs are known to be, uh, the most intelligent, but they have a problem. They're
intelligent, but they have the poorest eyesight. They don't see very well. And so where people
fail with pigs and electric fence is failure to keep it visible. So if you notice we've weed
eated, we do a lot of maintenance here to weed eat these, uh, these fences so that they're highly
visible. The pig center of gravity is low. Their eyes are low. Their nose is low. So the, the wire
doesn't have to be very high, but it does need to be visible and it needs to be tight. Uh, so,
so the mistake people make, or the, you know, the keys to, to running with electric fence,
A, it's got to be visible. B, it's got to be tight. So they can't just come up and kind of
push against it for a while before they get a shock. You want it, you want it tight. And, um,
and you want a hot enough spark. We try to run at least 3000 volts in, in these wires when a hot
enough spark to turn them. And, um, and so, yeah, there's a, it's like everything. There's a lot of
ways you can mess up something. So, uh, that's true. Now, another thing I want you to notice
here is this wooden, this set of wooden gates between paddocks. So the pigs, again, they're
so intelligent that they don't trust us. Pigs are the hardest animal to get to trust you because
they are so smart and they don't, they don't, because they're so smart. They, they, you know,
we, uh, we open electric fence gates. They come on through pigs and they're sitting there trying
to, uh, this is not a negotiation. I think that's good for me. I'm not sure I want to go through
here. And so, um, and so the pigs are the hardest to get to trust you to, to, to, you know, come
through the electric fence. So we use wooden gates. We use wooden gates. We have wooden access
to all these paddocks. So if we want to move them, we can open up the wooden and there's no,
there's no stigma about coming through the wooden gates. They've been rubbing on them and,
you know, playing with them all the time. And so, uh, they don't, they don't mind at all,
you know, going through the, the wooden gate. Um, as I say, the wooden gates, uh, save your,
your, um, your emotions and your religion. Because when you say move pigs, everybody's
got moving pig stories. Everybody's got moving pig stories. I mean, their center of gravity is so low
that we look like a bunch of traffic cones to them and their eyesight's not very good. So they
come up to us, you know, they got, they got 300 pounds is below your kneecaps. Well, man, let me
tell you, look at that pig responding. So that could be some busted kneecaps right there. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. So, so the, the, the point is that, um, uh, you've, you've got to think when you're
like a pig, you've got to think everything from like 14 inches and down. Uh, and, and, uh, so
that's really, that's really, that's why you sort boards and, you know, all that sort of stuff.
Now, what advice would you give someone who is maybe considering raising a pig,
not necessarily for me, but maybe for land management? Uh, do you think that would be
a good idea to raise pigs for that? Well, when you talk about clearing land,
let's say you've got a bunch of briars or brambles or whatever. And you're,
and you're looking at that. One of the beauties of a pig versus a goat is that they're a lot
easier to keep in. Obviously that fence would never keep a goat in. They would step over it.
They wouldn't, they just wouldn't even think about that. Would they? The advantage of a goat over a
pig is that they do reach up a lot higher. You know, they'll actually reach up and bend stuff
over and eat it. So, you know, with the pigs, if it's not, you know, if it's not within 24 inches,
it doesn't exist to the pig. And so, um, so that, you know, the two land upgrade animals are the
goat and the pig. And, um, I think that's, that's a lot is, is a matter of personal preference and
desire. Um, the, the, the goat takes a lot more, uh, a lot more wire, um, and they eat higher.
A pig will actually, it'll actually root brambles and, and, you know, plants. It'll actually root
them out of a, of a place. So they'll actually, whereas a goat won't disturb the land to actually
stimulate, you know, new vegetation. Uh, a pig will, I mean, we never planted them. This was
deep forest. This was deep woods. We just started cutting the trees back.
I opened it up and all of this forage that's, that's in here came as a, it was just in the seed
bank. You know, seeds, seeds are amazing. They, they'll sit there for hundreds of years before
they germinate. And, uh, you talk about wisdom, I often, I often, uh, uh, kind of get, um, uh,
mystical about the, about the wisdom of a seed that, that every spring says, I'm not going to
germinate this year. I'm not going to germinate this year. And this goes on every year, every
year, every year for a hundred years, 200 years. And then something happens year 283
and the seed says, ah, I think I'll germinate this year. You know, I mean, that's real wisdom,
isn't it? That's real wisdom. And so, so that's, what's happening here. Uh, we never planted a seed,
uh, but we just, we just, uh, cleaned the trees off and the, the disturbance of the pigs disturbed
the soil to allow these seeds to say, oh, there's a new sheriff in town. You know, we can, we can
come out now. And, uh, that's how these pastures have been established. So there's a lot of latent
seed bank, but, um, but it's real important to do this, to, to, to not over-disturb and also to not
under-disturb. So looking at the work that they've done in here so far, how much longer would these
stay in this, this particular? Uh, these guys were just about done. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. And of course,
we've had a lot of rain. If we were dry, like we often are this time of year, if we were dry,
they wouldn't be doing any rooting, but because we've had three weeks of three inches of rain,
uh, they're doing extra amount of disturbance. So you can actually, you can actually go back
and kind of see the, uh, the weather record based on like what the paddocks are going to look like
next spring. Oh, okay. I remember. Yeah. It was wet in here. It was dry in here. I mean,
you can actually see it. It's very responsive. The land is very responsive. Uh, and the pigs
are very responsive to, to, uh, 24 hour weather cycles, depending on what's going on. Just
watching them here. And then we raised goats. I'm almost thinking you could almost work them
together, like bring in the pigs and then the goats to get things up higher as, uh, yeah,
we've certainly run, we've run, uh, cows, sheep behind the pigs, you know, along with them. Yeah.
Okay. Yeah. Yeah. You absolutely could. You could do all sorts of leader follower.
We've tried chickens, but, uh, we're so far away. The predators just eat you alive. We tried some,
some bannies, you know, said, you know, roost up in the trees. Well, they roosted up in the trees,
but they went to other trees, you know, a mile away. We, we could, we couldn't keep them here.
So what we have seen a lot in these pig pastures is wild turkeys. Okay. Wild turkeys are drawn
because the pigs pass some grain, you know, they pass some stuff in the turkey, the wild turkeys
love to eat that. So we're actually attracting a lot of wildlife in these, uh, uh, pig silvopastures,
um, attracting a lot of wildlife that didn't used to be here, uh, as a result of this, this scheme,
which, you know, that that's not bad either. No, especially in hunting season.
And speaking of it, attracting more wildlife. Some people have the issue with raising animals,
right. But raising, you're raising these animals here, attracting more life. That's just benefiting
the ecosystem as a whole. Oh, absolutely. You know, we, there's this idea that you can't do
commercial farming without, you know, damaging wild, the two can't, uh, coexist. And our
experience with these kinds of systems is that it actually stimulates the local wildlife,
including pollinators. I mean, not only deer and turkeys, but, but, uh, but pollinators and the
whole, the whole litany of things, because it creates this, this mosaic ecosystem. You're not
just all grass or all trees or all water. It's a, it's a mosaic and most thing, most life, uh,
critters, um, they, they want a little bit of both. They want, they want a little bit of water,
a little bit of open, a little bit of forest, you know, and so edge, edge effect always
stimulates diversity of, of flora and fauna. And that's exactly what this is. That's what,
that's what this does. So it reminds me of a lesson that I've, I've learned in the past few
years that we're, we're to give, but as you're giving with working with the land and the pigs,
everyone working together in unison, it's just a give, give relationship that
is beneficial to all life. Yeah, that's right. That's right. Um, you know, when you start,
look, when you start looking at abundance, this is all about abundance and not scarcity.
And when you start serving this ecological womb, uh, so many times people think, well,
you know, our nature is this, is this reluctant, this reluctant partner that we've got to,
oh, you know, I got to make you do, you know, and I'm going to get you in a, you know,
it's a wrestling match when actually nature is a benevolent lover that just wants to be
caressed in the right places. And that's, it's a real different way of looking at things.
And so, um, uh, you know, one of my, one of my favorite things that happened here once,
um, I had a, I had a chef, chef come up. He was a young chef and he, you know, he'd cooked a lot
of pork chops and bacon and stuff, but he'd never actually seen a live pig. And he came up here and
he's standing right here. He's watching these things. And he just, he just finally says,
you know, I think if I was a pig, this is the way I'd want to live. And that just said it all.
Just if that's a pig, if I was a pig, this is where I'd like to live. And so this is what we
talk about honoring the pigness of the pig, you know, and the industry does not honor the pigness
of the pig. It just simply views the pig. Can we grow them faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper
as an inanimate pile of protoplasmic structure to be manipulated. However, cleverly hubris can
imagine to manipulate it. And I suggested a culture that views life from that mechanistic,
mechanistic, inanimate type of paradigm. We'll view it citizens in the same way.
If we're going to, if we want, you know, if we want to have a world that honors the sailorness
of sailor and the Josiahness of Josiah and the Micahness of Micah, it starts with honoring the
pigness of the pig, the chickenness of the chicken, the tomato-ness of the tomato as life.
They always eat dessert first. Just like kids.
I've never had a pig say, you know, that was kind of small. Let's all hold back a little bit.
I'll keep holding because he'll hit my feet.
One of the things that we've learned from our chefs, because we supply about
50 restaurants, and over the years consistently our meats, pork, poultry, beef,
it cooks 20% faster than the regular, you know, industrial. And we've thought long and hard,
you know, why is that? And we think there are two reasons. One is that the exercise,
they're more succulent. So you've got more moisture, which makes the meat steam from the
inside. All right. So that's a factor. But another factor is that these animals never secrete
adrenaline. And in an industrial, in a factory farm, those animals are in such social, natural
stress. I mean, think about that. Every day of their life. It's stressful. Every day of their
life, it's stressful. And so, you know, if every day of your life you were stressful,
you know, you get contracted, you get tense, you get bound up. And so we think, and there's not a
way to prove this right now, but we believe that the tissue is actually, you know, much better
when the animal is not secreting all that adrenaline all its life. And because ours
don't have all that, that's one reason why they cook faster. And then is it too far
stretched to think, well, then if I eat animals that are unstressed, will I be less stressed than
if I eat animals that are stressed all the time? You know, you are what you eat and you are what
you eat eats. That's a very interesting theory. And like, maybe you could be absorbing some of
the cortisol or whatever the hormones that comes from them being stressed. That's really interesting.
That's absolutely right. I mean, when you consider that what's going on in this, you know, world
around us is every, every square yard, there are, there are a quadrillion negotiations every
nanosecond of relational stuff. You know, I'll trade you some molybdenum for a little bit of
that polysaccharide, you know, that's what's going on at the cell level, at the mitochondrial level,
and you know, at the atomic level. And we don't, we don't think about all of those little
negotiations. But as we learn more about the microbiome and the connection between the gut
and the brain and the gut and our emotions and all those things, we're starting to realize, wow,
you know, if you, if you look at the soil as being nothing but nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus,
a simplistic view to the soil makes a simplistic view to the plants, makes a simplistic animal,
which we eat, or the plant, plant or animal, if it's simplistic, then, then our microbiome is
not getting the complexity that it wants. Maybe we've got, maybe we've got two bacteria in here
that really want a nuance of plantain. We're not going to get that in feedlot beef or in factory
chicken. But our animals get all plantain all the time, and are going to give your microbiome.
So we want that diversity, we want that complexity in our microbiome. And the point is that if all
we feed our microbiome is simplicity, then does that translate into simplicity of thought,
that we're unable to even think in complex,
complex thoughts, because all we fed our microbiome is simplicity.
You said these are persimmon trees? Uh-huh. So the pigs can't tear them up, but you could do this
with, you know, if you had apple trees or, you know, any kind of fruit or nut trees you wanted
to protect, you just put a, you know, just make a little triangle of pallets around them and that
protects them, you know, until the tree can get enough size on it to, to take the, you know,
take some rubbing. Did you plant these or were these? No, these squirrels or birds or whatever
they were, they just came up, they just came up in the pastures. And when we saw them, we, you know,
like, see, there's a real little one right there, but we, this is how you can, this is how you can
kind of, you kind of work with the pig, you know, it's a partnership, it, this isn't just hands-off,
I mean, we do ourselves very much as pigs, how can we help you? And I guess the pigs are asking
how they can help us, I don't know, but, but, but, you know, we're, we're trying to help each other
here and create a habitat that allows, that allows the habitat to, to, to move forward in,
I mean, obviously, pigs love persimmons and so do wildlife, and so if we can, if we can protect
these from the pigs and get them up and get them bearing, then, you know, the pigs will be able to
enjoy those persimmons, you know, down the road. And guys, I want to point out to you that there
were a lot more trees in here, and as Joel was talking about, that they went through and removed
trees specifically and intentionally, so that way it can be a healthier area to grow grass
and be more supportive of the different animals that are coming through here, like the pigs,
and, and the trees that are here, left here intentionally, that they're able to grow properly
and they're able to, to branch out and not be smothered and, and to be weaker trees, but to
grow and be stronger trees, and just the area to be stronger and healthier as a whole.
We're a permaculture believer in that we need, we need more forest and fewer trees,
and the fact that we spend four billion dollars a year on fire in the U.S., we should be,
you know, chipping all that and running a carbon economy.
And it's also neat to see how much Joel loves those pigs, but you know what? He also loves his
cows, which I had that chance to see, and that was pretty amazing too, so make sure you stay tuned for
that in another video, as well as got to see his layer operation with his chickens, as well as the
pond and water systems that he has. That was amazing, and I also had a chance to be hands-on
with processing ducks there, so you guys are just going to have to stay tuned for that as well. But
while we were here, I had a chance to chat with a number of the stewards here, and that was really
enjoyable to being able to do that. It was super cool, and Gabby was one of those stewards, and she
is just like the sweetest bubbly person, and she even recognized us from our channel, so that was
super cool. So here's what Gabby has to say about her experience. All right, I'm here with Gabby,
and Gabby, you've been a steward here as well? Yep. So from your experience as being a steward
here, what have you learned through this experience? Well, I came here because I didn't know
what I didn't know. I didn't grow up in like a farming family or anything, so mostly I was just
like, well, anything I learn will be something new and good, hopefully. So some of the biggest
takeaways I've gotten out of these three months so far have been focus on something,
so that you're not trying to start too big or expand too quickly, and also be realistic with
what you can do, because for me, I want to have turkeys really bad now, because I love the turkeys,
they're the best thing ever, but realistically right now where I live in like a mostly suburban
area, like no one's gonna just let me have turkeys in my yard, so I gotta start off doing
something else before I can kind of rearrange my life so that I can move and do that sort of thing,
so I'm gonna start looking more into like market gardening, and I'm interested in farming people's
backyard. Oh, that's great. Like tons of people need food, and like I think the demand is super
there. Just before I came here, passing through the neighborhood, I would see like five new raised
beds and greenhouses popping up, so I'm like, oh, you might not know what you're doing, but I kind
of know how to grow stuff, so I don't know. Those are my biggest takeaways, and then actually the
one thing that's probably more important is kind of more personal, it's about like strength and
comparison, and that like farming is tough work, but no matter what, your progress matters.
You're making big changes, and you're doing something very worthwhile for yourself and
your community, and just because you don't know something right away, or you're not great at it
right away, doesn't mean you're not doing a fantastic job, and that you shouldn't stick
with it, because even if the guy next door is doing so much better than you, you can keep
improving, and there's no reason to give up, because you're doing this for your own health, for
the land, for your community, and that's what really matters. That's great. So how was it having access
to Joel and Daniel and them on a regular basis to learn from? How was it? It's kind of weird.
Before coming here, I didn't really, I didn't read all the books. I read like half of one book,
so I was just like, oh this is cool, Salatin guy, like all right, but there's such a great wealth of
knowledge. Like one of the first weeks here, I watched Daniel do like a calf pulling, and it was
like jaws of life, birth, right in front of us, and the technique, it was so amazing, and it's just like
these people I have access to all the time, and live with, and eat with, and learn with, and like
we're becoming a family here. So it's incredible, because I'm really appreciative that they like to
share their knowledge with all of us, because they don't have to share this with the world, and send
us out there to become better stewards of the land, and I'm just super grateful, because I mean
they're normal people, and they're a riot to hang out with too, but it's like what they're doing is so
special, that it's such a blessing to be able to do this with them. That is great. Well, I wanted to say
keep encouraged. You can do it, and you may have to, you said, do it in increments and phases, but
that's an awesome way to do it. Well, don't you just love Gabby? She is super cute, if I can say that.
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