Polyface Designs - by Joel Salatin & Chris Slattery (Paperback)

About the Book

"Polyface Farms in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley is famous for low-cost, bootstrap mobile, multi-functional, environmentally friendly, scalable livestock infrastructure. After years of being asked for our shelter blueprints, we have accumulated our signature designs into a comprehensive, easy to follow how-to manual with tips, tricks, and a half a century of the lessons we learned through trial and error. Polyface Designs provides simple step by step construction diagrams so even beginners can be successful with these thrifty builds. Best of all, our comprehensive material lists will save you time and money by eliminating multiple trips to the store and the purchase of extra unnecessary materials. Pasture-based multi-functional infrastructure is the wave of the future and you can build it easily with us as your mentor"--

Book Synopsis

A comprehensive how-to manual of Polyface Farm's signature designs--with tips, tricks, and a half century of lessons learned through trial and errorHave you wondered how to build the Polyface broiler shelter, or the dolly to move it, or an Eggmobile, Gobbledygo or Shademobile? For folks getting started, folks adding enterprises, or folks wanting a cheaper bootstrap way to build portable livestock infrastructure, Polyface Designs has all the diagrams and do-it-yourself building specifications. Joel Salatin wrote the text and Polyface former apprentice and engineer extraordinaire Chris Slattery did the drawings. Ultimately practical, the book includes how to build a corral, a home-made head gate and even how to select the right axle for your project. Square footage requirements for the deep bedding hay shed and area advice for pig pastures make this the definitive repository for a lifetime of Polyface experimentation.A massive volume, its 568 pages are in full color and beautiful enough to be a coffee table book even though you'll use it in your shop. Don't let the cover price scare you; one building tip can more than save the price of the book.

About the Author

Joel Salatin and his family own and operate Polyface Farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. The farm produces pastured beef, pork, chicken, eggs, turkeys, rabbits, lamb and ducks, servicing roughly 6,000 families and 50 restaurants in the farm's bioregion. He has written 14 books to date, is editor of Stockman Grass Farmer Magazine, and lectures around the world on land healing and local food systems. Polyface Farm operates a formal apprenticeship program and conducts many educational workshops and events. Chris Slattery is a mechanical engineer turned farmer/homesteader. With years of experience in CAD/3D modeling coupled with his experience working with his father in the trades and a formal apprenticeship at Polyface, he is uniquely gifted to bring drawings to life. He currently resides on his family's 112-acre farm in south central Kentucky.