Joel Salatin | Our Farm Was Born in the Shadow of Gunfire

We fled the back doors, the machine guns came in the front door and lost everything. In seven years, was able to save enough money to buy a thousand acre farm in the Venezuelan islands. And by that time, he and mom had married, and by that time they'd had. They'd had my older brother and then me. So here we are out on the farm, and his dream was milk and chickens. So chickens have a quicker turnaround. So let's start with chickens. So he started growing chickens and quickly literally took over the local chicken market. This is 197 5657. And the local chickens had a nasal drip because they're running through open sewers and squat pots. Very unsanitary conditions. And they all had these low, lingering infections in the chickens and in the indigenous chickens. Our chickens were clean. And so immediately, dad, how those Latin American markets are. The farmers come in the square and everybody. Dad quickly took all the market away from the local farmers. And of course, they immediately accused us of being witches, practicing voodoo and witchcraft.