Herbivores in nature exhibit three characteristics: mobbing for predator protection, movement daily onto fresh forage and away from yesterday’s droppings, and a diet consisting of forage only – no dead animals, no chicken manure, no grain, and no fermented forage. Polyface Farm’s goal is to approximate this template as closely as possible. Polyface cows eat forage only, a new pasture paddock roughly every day, and stay herded tightly with portable electric fencing. This natural model heals the land, thickens the forage, reduces weeds, stimulates earthworms, reduces pathogens, and increases nutritional qualities in the meat. The term “salad bar beef” is a reference to the cows’ “salad bar” diet of diverse vegetation found within every square foot of pasture on the farm, made possible by the Salitan family’s firm commitment to polyculture and other regenerative farming principles.