Let’s face it—farming isn’t easy, and turning it into a thriving, full-time business often feels like an impossible dream.
Farm Like a Lunatic’s complete course library was built to help you achieve your dreams of a successful farm or homestead. Inside, you'll get lifetime access to all 8 premium courses, packed with 160+ detailed lessons and 39 hours of video instruction.
Joel leaves no stone unturned, revealing exactly how to transform your farm into a thriving business that can support your family for years to come. From innovative techniques to proven marketing strategies, you'll learn the exact systems that separate profitable farms from struggling ones.
Don’t miss this incredible opportunity to learn directly from the man TIME Magazine called “The world’s most innovative farmer." With over 60 years of farming experience and a gift for simplifying complex ideas, Joel Salatin is the mentor you’ve been waiting for.
When you purchase our flagship course, Foundations in Farming and Homesteading, you’ll unlock access to ALL 8 of our courses, plus all future courses at no extra cost.
About Joel Salatin
Joel Salatin calls himself a Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer.
Others who like him call him the most famous farmer in the world, the high priest of the pasture, and the most eclectic thinker from Virginia since Thomas Jefferson. Those who don’t like him call him a bio-terrorist, Typhoid Mary, charlatan, and starvation advocate.
With a room full of debate trophies from high school and college days, 12 published books, and a thriving multi-generational family farm, he draws on a lifetime of food, farming and fantasy to entertain and inspire audiences around the world. He’s as comfortable moving cows in a pasture as addressing CEOs in a Wall Street business conference.
On his family farm in the Shenandoah Valley, Polyface Farms, Joel produces meat he describes as "beyond organic", which are raised using what the farm describes as environmentally responsible, ecologically beneficial, sustainable agriculture.
Joel has been featured in National Geographic, Smithsonian, Omnivore’s Dilemma, Food Inc. and many others.
"He's not going back to the old model. There's nothing in county extension or old-fashioned ag science that really informs him. He is just looking totally afresh at how to maximize production in an integrated system on a holistic farm. He's just totally innovative."
- Author Jo Robinson
Foundations in Farming and Homesteading
More and more things in our lives are out of our control. The tension of our time makes us yearn for personal resilience. With uncertainty about the future, homesteading and farmsteading can provide the independence, self-reliance, and security we all desire.
Many of us are realizing that rather than pumping more money into a 401k, or Roth IRA, or buying gold, what we really need to be doing is leveraging our equity into skill, know-how, and relationships.
The goal is to reduce our vulnerabilities and embrace a very positive can-do ability to survive and thrive even if the stock market crashes, even if hyperinflation kicks in, regardless of who’s in the White House or who’s in Congress.
If you’ve ever dreamed about a homestead or about self-reliance, we want to make that dream a reality.
Our flagship course, Foundations of Farming and Homesteading includes:
- 17 video sessions
- 4 hours of video
- Downloadable PDF transcripts for each video lesson
- Homework PDFs for each lesson that guide you through the essential steps
- Expert insight from an award-winning farmer
This course will help you avoid costly mistakes and move you to a profitable farm enterprise.
Through the information provided in the course, you'll be able to gain self-reliance in your food, energy, housing, health, and finances.
Foundations of Farming and Homesteading students also get access to each course listed below (plus all future courses).
Pastured Broilers
Learn how to develop a full-time enterprise with pastured poultry. This system was was designed for the small farmer with small acreage and small capital (20 lessons and 5+ hours of video instruction).
Pastured Pigs
Turn your marginal farmland into a cash cow--or in this case, a cash pig. Follow a proven model with small capital investment and high profitability (17 lessons and 3+ hours of video instruction).
Pastured Laying Hens
Generate cash flow for your farming operation with pastured laying hens. This system works for homesteads and farms of all sizes (25 lessons and 5+ hours of video instruction).
Carbonaceous Diaper
Use the winter months as a catalyst for summer productivity. Provide comfortable winter housing for your animals while producing your own fertilizer and save thousands of dollars. (18 lessons and 4+ hours of video instruction)
Cattle Grazing Management
Learn Joel Salatin's cattle grazing management system that promotes healthy grass, reduces weeds, benefits the soil, and keeps cows healthy and happy--and helps your profitability too (24 lessons and 5+ hours of video instruction).
Salad Bar Beef
The complete process for healthy, tasty, grass-finished beef. Ecological, effective, and profitable beef production superior to grain-fed, grain-fattened beef and feedlots. (22 lessons and 4+ hours of video instruction).
Farm Direct Marketing
Build a stable, secure, and profitable income from retail. Create a long-term brand legacy of farm production in your community and eliminate the dependency on middlemen (23 lessons and 6+ hours of video instruction).
Free Preview
Watch 3 bonus videos for free to get a feel for the content included in Foundations of Farming and Homesteading.
What Others Are Saying:
"In all my years of homesteading, I have never seen anything like Joel Salatin’s Farm Like a Lunatic series!
"From conferences, to YouTube videos, to magazine articles, there are many resources out there to learn various aspects of homesteading, but most fail to address the more serious and less-talked-about issues of homesteading. Yet Joel tackles these common issues in this series. He covers topics like: how to manage finances, interpersonal relationships, increasing farm profitability, how to design a landscape, and so much more.
"I only wish that this series was available when I first started homesteading. Foundations in Farming and Homesteading can save you thousands of dollars, as well as can save you a countless amount of time and energy."
- Mike Dickson (The Fit Farmer)
"Since we started Apricot Lane Farms a decade ago, Joel Salatin’s innovative and inspiring philosophy has deeply influenced the way we see our own farm. From soil building and grazing strategies to modeling how to sell your product, he’s a “nose to tail” farming system resource.
His new online course “Farm Like A Lunatic” is a treasure trove of practical knowledge for aspiring farmers. He’s especially good for those interested in understanding unique methods of farming that regenerate both the land of the farm and the spirit of the farmer.
I wish a course like this existed when we started Apricot Lane Farms. Anyone who has a fantasy to farm but isn’t quite sure which steps to take to make it to reality should consider this course."
- John Chester, creator of The Biggest Little Farm