Lily and I got to spend a couple hours with Joel Salatin today at our friend’s nearby farm. He is in town for the Rogue Food Conference. (And has mentored our CSA farmer, “Farmer Nick” as the kids know him, for years so we were invited to come meet him.) I’ll be posting an in-person interview soon in which he discusses tyranny from the farmer’s perspective, and what he’s doing about that now. I remember reading “Everything I Want to Do is Illegal” almost a decade ago, and thinking, this guy is onto something. The man I met today has the same message he has had for decades: I own my right to feed myself. Joel is a no-words-minced kind of guy on camera and in person, but just as interested in listening as he is talking. My favorite part was praying with him and several other farmers at the end, asking God to guide us along this continually treacherous path. He and Lily shared a freshly picked carrot together and on the way home I said, “What did you think of Joel?” She replied, “Who’s Joel?” 🤣