Woodland Ridge Farm & Learning Center
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Sovereign living, learning and lodging on a working farm near Athens, OH and Parkersburg, WV.
We are practitioners of restorative agriculture and farm to table food. Sharing the love of the land and sustainable solutions for living. Join us for farm tours, brewing workshops, edible/medicinal plant workshops, wild-food dinners, animal husbandry, garden magic and more! Or just come and find a comfortable place to stay while visiting this beautiful part of Appalachia.
05/04/2026
Food supply elements eliminating non food additives from their products.
That's good.
Steak & Shake 100% grass fed beef in June.
That is good too.
ALDI USA is eliminating 44 additional ingredients from its private-label products—including select artificial preservatives, colors, flavors, and sweeteners—expanding its restricted ingredient list from 13 to 57. Other companies should follow their lead.
More common sense notions related to how each of us can act in a manner that makes where we live a better place to live and work.
Good stuff, here.
Doesn't this make sense?
04/21/2026
Joel's Salitan's blog related to the PRIME Act'hs inclusion in the next Farm Bill.
It's a good thing that would bring measurable improved effect to rural economies and the health of rural people. Imagine if a family could buy clean local meat from a neighboring farmer.
There is a lot of good there. Be an informed supporter of this action. Phone call your US Rep and your Senators' offices to log your support.
Thank you.
PRIME ACT IS IN — The Lunatic Farmer The Farm Bill, which is now long overdue and supposedly on tap to be voted on in the next couple of months, still contains Congressman Thomas Massie's PRIME ACT…
04/17/2026
We have read, thought, trained with and advocated for Joel Salitan's brand of Regenerative Agricultural and Food Freedom since the last century.
I am so encouraged this more than an hour long, mindful discussion, now has a place in our society to be heard and thought about and shared and further examined and discussed to broad audiences.
So much insight and clarity.
My biggest take away? Allow farmers to legally SELL what they produce and value add, to their neighbors legally.
The Gospel According to a Lunatic Farmer | Joel Salatin | The Glenn Beck Podcast | Ep 285 Joel Salatin is a self-described “Christian, libertarian, environmentalist, capitalist, lunatic farmer.” If that confuses you, that's the point. But Joel exp...
Scale appropriate regulations.
In the Farm Bill, by golly that is a good thing as far as we are concerned.
Remove the barriers. Let a homesteader harvest their animals, feed their family, in part by selling part of that harvest to their neighbors.
Added leveraged value logically opens up new and expanded markets of local people feeding those they love clean, nutrient dense local meat.
We are relearning how to feed ourselves as a People.
"Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine thy food"
Call your Congressperson and encourage their advocacy for the PRIME (Processing Revival for Intrastate Meat Exemption) Act.
We will all be better for it.
03/20/2026
Interesting read from America's favorite farmer, mine too. Joel is a champion of food freedom and the both the Bard of functional, prosperous small family farm life and how to manuals of operations of the same.
These reflections are from his work with farmers in Poland.
POLISH RULES — The Lunatic Farmer This is my last day in Poland; today I'll be talking to about 40 farmers in a brand new walk-in cooler made out of h**p blocks and powered by solar panels…
From my view, Joel has articulated a strategy here that perpetuates health and prosperity in rural communities.
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