Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World

by Joel Salatin

So forty years ago, every woman knew how to cut up a chicken.

What happened to Jefferson’s intellectual agrarian dream? It’s been replaced by a redneck hillbilly D-student trip-over-the-transmission-in-the-backyard tobacco-spittin’ stereotypical steward of our most precious resources. Known as rural brain drain, this phenomenon has gradually taken the best and brightest to urban centers and left the underachievers in charge of the landscape.