Churchgoing friends could never understand why our family embraced health food, compost piles, and our dope-smoking hippie friends. In our home, there was nothing contradictory about being both a pro-life Christian and a good steward of our planet.

It is so powerful to watch a tomato grow, and when it finally turns red, I eat it and the juice runs down my elbow. That awareness of my place in the context of something bigger than me is so much more profound than being the best at Angry Birds.

What are “pigaerators”? What is People-centric faming? And who sanitizes the pastures at Polyface Farm? Learn more about the philosophy undergirding Salatin’s family farm in Swoope, Virginia.