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Author | : Martha Hodgkins |
Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2017-03-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1616896035 |
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An agricultural revolution is sweeping the land. Appreciation for high-quality food, often locally grown, an awareness of the fragility of our farmlands, and a new generation of young people interested in farming, animals, and respect for the earth have come together to create a new agrarian community. To this group of farmers, chefs, activists, and visionaries, Letters to a Young Farmer is addressed. Three dozen esteemed leaders of the changes that made this revolution possible speak to the highs and lows of farming life in vivid and personal letters specially written for this collaboration. Barbara Kingsolver speaks to the tribe of farmers—some born to it, many self-selected—with love, admiration, and regret. Dan Barber traces the rediscovery of lost grains and foodways. Michael Pollan bridges the chasm between agriculture and nature. Bill McKibben connects the early human quest for beer to the modern challenge of farming in a rapidly changing climate. Letters to a Young Farmer is a vital road map of how we eat and farm, and why now, more than ever before, we need farmers.
Author | : Gene Logsdon |
Publisher | : Chelsea Green Publishing |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 160358725X |
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"In his final book of essays - completed just weeks before he died - self-described "contrary farmer" Gene Logsdon addresses the next generation of small-scale "garden farmers" seeking a better way of life."--
Author | : John Dickinson |
Publisher | : New York : Outlook Company |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
Download Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Gene Logsdon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : |
Download The Contrary Farmer Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Offers the practical advice of a manual for the cottage farmer as well as meditation in praise of work and pleasure.
Author | : Gene Logsdon |
Publisher | : Chelsea Green Publishing |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2010-08-30 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1603583106 |
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In his insightful new book, Holy Shit: Managing Manure to Save Mankind, contrary farmer Gene Logsdon provides the inside story of manure-our greatest, yet most misunderstood, natural resource. He begins by lamenting a modern society that not only throws away both animal and human manure-worth billions of dollars in fertilizer value-but that spends a staggering amount of money to do so. This wastefulness makes even less sense as the supply of mined or chemically synthesized fertilizers dwindles and their cost skyrockets. In fact, he argues, if we do not learn how to turn our manures into fertilizer to keep food production in line with increasing population, our civilization, like so many that went before it, will inevitably decline. With his trademark humor, his years of experience writing about both farming and waste management, and his uncanny eye for the small but important details, Logsdon artfully describes how to manage farm manure, pet manure and human manure to make fertilizer and humus. He covers the field, so to speak, discussing topics like: How to select the right pitchfork for the job and use it correctly How to operate a small manure spreader How to build a barn manure pack with farm animal manure How to compost cat and dog waste How to recycle toilet water for irrigation purposes, and How to get rid ourselves of our irrational paranoia about feces and urine. Gene Logsdon does not mince words. This fresh, fascinating and entertaining look at an earthy, but absolutely crucial subject, is a small gem and is destined to become a classic of our agricultural literature.
Author | : Gene Logsdon |
Publisher | : Chelsea Green Publishing |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2000-02-01 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1603580492 |
Download Living at Nature's Pace Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
For decades, Logsdon and his family have run a viable family farm. Along the way, he has become a widely influential journalist and social critic, documenting in hundreds of essays for national and regional magazines the crisis in conventional agri-business and the boundless potential for new forms of farming that reconcile tradition with ecology. Logsdon reminds us that healthy and economical agriculture must work "at nature's pace," instead of trying to impose an industrial order on the natural world. Foreseeing a future with "more farmers, not fewer," he looks for workable models among the Amish, among his lifelong neighbors in Ohio, and among resourceful urban gardeners and a new generation of defiantly unorthodox organic growers creating an innovative farmers-market economy in every region of the country. Nature knows how to grow plants and raise animals; it is human beings who are in danger of losing this age-old expertise, substituting chemical additives and artificial technologies for the traditional virtues of fertility, artistry, and knowledge of natural processes. This new edition of Logsdon's important collection of essays and articles (first published by Pantheon in 1993) contains six new chapters taking stock of American farm life at this turn of the century.
Author | : Richard Henry Lee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Two series of letters described as "the wellsprings of nearly all ensuing debate on the limits of governmental power in the United States" address the whole remarkable range of issues provoked by the crisis of British policies in North America out of which a new nation emerged from an overreaching empire. Forrest McDonald is Professor Emeritus of American History at the University of Alabama and author of States' Rights and the Union.
Author | : Caroline Henderson |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2012-10-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0806187948 |
Download Letters from the Dust Bowl Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In May 1936 Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace wrote to Caroline Henderson to praise her contributions to American "understanding of some of our farm problems." His comments reflected the national attention aroused by Henderson’s articles, which had been published in Atlantic Monthly since 1931. Even today, Henderson’s articles are frequently cited for her vivid descriptions of the dust storms that ravaged the Plains. Caroline Henderson was a Mount Holyoke graduate who moved to Oklahoma’s panhandle to homestead and teach in 1907. This collection of Henderson’s letters and articles published from 1908 to1966 presents an intimate portrait of a woman’s life in the Great Plains. Her writing mirrors her love of the land and the literature that sustained her as she struggled for survival. Alvin O. Turner has collected and edited Henderson’s published materials together with her private correspondence. Accompanying biographical sketch, chapter introductions, and annotations provide details on Henderson’s life and context for her frequent literary allusions and comments on contemporary issues.
Author | : Kelly Jones |
Publisher | : Yearling |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2016-03-08 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0385755554 |
Download Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Fans of Katherine Applegate and Erin Entrada Kelly will love this quirky story of a determined girl, and some extraordinary chickens. Twelve-year-old Sophie Brown feels like a fish out of water when she and her parents move from Los Angeles to the farm they’ve inherited from a great-uncle. But farm life gets more interesting when a cranky chicken appears and Sophie discovers the hen can move objects with the power of her little chicken brain: jam jars, the latch to her henhouse, the entire henhouse.... And then more of her great-uncle’s unusual chickens come home to roost. Determined, resourceful Sophie learns to care for her flock, earning money for chicken feed, collecting eggs. But when a respected local farmer tries to steal them, Sophie must find a way to keep them (and their superpowers) safe. Told in letters to Sophie’s abuela, quizzes, a chicken-care correspondence course, to-do lists, and more, Unusual Chickens is a quirky, clucky classic in the making.
Author | : Michael Foley |
Publisher | : Chelsea Green Publishing |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : SOCIAL SCIENCE |
ISBN | : 1603588000 |
Download Farming for the Long Haul Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Farming in the ruins of the twentieth century -- A short, unhappy history of business advice for farmers -- Subsistence first! -- Land for the tiller -- Soil, civilization, and resilient farmers through the centuries -- Resourceful farmers -- Woodlands and wastes -- It takes a village: leisure, community, and resilience -- Getting a living, forging a livelihood -- Farmer, citizen, survivor: politics and resilience