CAN HUGE LAND OWNERS LEARN POLYFACE FARM?

If acquisition saves land, why not Polyface Farm it for improvement?

These are the biggest land owners in America.

Millions of acres for billionaires getting into land conservation, ranching, and farming.

The farming part and ranching part remind me of Polyface Farms.

Could land owners partner with Joel Salatin to turn farming and ranching into land reclamation projects?

What if they got help from Laurene Powell Jobs? From the Gates Foundation?

Can you imagine a better team for influencer marketing? Or a better cause than clean food and healthy land?

Let the introductions begin:

Meet John Malone

From fortune.com:

“Productive land is one of the very few permanent values throughout history,” Malone says.

Mr. Malone sounds ready to make land more productive with less destructive methods.

John Malone, meet Joel Salatin.

Ted Turner

From forbes.com:

Former media mogul Ted Turner has settled down. Turner spends his days at his many ranches around the world, pushing for environmentalist causes and giving to philanthropy.

What’s more environmentally sound than Polyface Farms?

Mr. Turner, this is Mr. Salatin.

The Emmerson Family

From forbes.com:

Emmerson founded Sierra Pacific Industries with his father Curly in 1949. He took the lumber products company public 20 years later and then private again in 1973. His sons George and Mark have taken over as president and chairman, respectively. The company has a 36-year tradition of granting scholarships to the children of its employees.

Any family interested enough in education to grant scholarships is a friend of BoomerPDX.

Learning new ways to do old things is good for everybody.

Mr. Emmerson? Meet Mr. Salatin.

Brad Kelley

From dailymail.co.uk:

His most extensive landholdings consist of huge ranches, most of which are largely unused, as he regards them more as investments than as a source of income.

Of huge land owners so far, this man sounds like a close match for Polyface Farms. Unused land? More of an investment than source of income?

What if Brad Kelley made some of his land available to sustainable farming ideas?

Brad, this is Joel.

The Reed Family

This one is close to home for Oregon forests.

The Reed Family gives back in their companies.

From greendiamond.com:

If you believe your project or organization meets our geographic criteria (Jackson, Klamath and Lake Counties in Oregon), we invite you to apply for a grant.

For an application form and guidelines, please contact:

Patti Case
Public Affairs/Regulatory Manager
Northwest Timberlands Division
Green Diamond Resource Company
pcase@greendiamond.com

Forestry, farming, and ranching all require land, lots of land.

The days of cut and run forestry is over. The days of chemical farming needs to follow.

Polyface Farms gives back, too.

Salatin family, please say hello to the Reed family.

If smart people with land partner with tech people who want to do more for the land, they have their guiding light in Polyface Farms.

Huge land owners don’t always hear the squeak of a small wheel like boomerpdx.

If you have some online skills, like brazen facebook link drops, drop this one and see where it goes.

A diverse team heavyweights need to find common ground for the way forward.

Let’s give it a push.

PART 2 coming soon.