SWOOPE – About 10 years ago, Dr. Temple Grandin gave Sarah Shafer two big pieces of advice for her twin sons with autism. Only allow them a small amount of time to live in their worlds. Get them ...

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 ...

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," ...

Over the past 20 years, Joel Salatin has emerged as a sort of guru of the sustainable-food movement. His 500-acre Polyface Farm in Swoope, Va., is legendary among a small circle of foodies for its ...

Virginia farmer Joel Salatin and his Corvallis protege work to prove that profit and responsible stewardship of land and animals can co-exist. By LAURA McCANDLISH Special to The Oregonian Joel Salatin ...

I can still remember my first encounter with the term “permaculture.” It was a Plowboy interview with Bill Mollison in MOTHER EARTH NEWS in 1980. I remember well how the ideas resonated with me, and I ...