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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Joel Salatin raises pastured poultry and grass-fed beef at Polyface Farms in Swoope, Va. Tell us a little bit about Polyface Farm. We’re located eight miles southwest of Staunton, Va., in the ...

Combining the voiceover aesthetics of a summer blockbuster (“In a world...”) and the folks-y camera work of public access television (lots of creative framing), a new video from Polyface Farms ...

The following post originally appeared on the Polyface Farms Facebook page. The recent editorial by James McWilliams, titled “The Myth of Sustainable Meat,” contains enough factual errors and skewed ...

SWOOPE – Spring will be here before you know it and with this in mind Polyface Farms is offering a Spring Planning Q&A workshop from 2-4 p.m. on Saturday, March 4. Polyface encourages families to come ...

SWOOPE — The Swoope-based free-range farm Polyface Farm hosted a private event Nov. 15 that sold 300 tickets. The event was for the Weston A. Price Foundation, a nonprofit charity that is "dedicated ...

It’s just past dawn, and the evidence is everywhere. A violent July thunderstorm crackled through here last night, booming like a cannon, sending strobe lights from the heavens and driving rain ...