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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Logsdon, Gene, author.
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Agriculture -- United States -- Anecdotes.
Farm life -- United States -- Anecdotes.
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Letter to a young fa...
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Letter to a young farmer : how to live richly without wealth on the new garden farm / Gene Logsdon ; foreword by Wendell Berry.
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Logsdon, Gene, author.
White River Junction, Vermont : Chelsea Green Publishing, c2017.
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Agriculture -- United States -- Anecdotes.
Farm life -- United States -- Anecdotes.
ISBN:
9781603587259 (hardcover) :
160358725X (hardcover)
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xiv, 210 pages ; 23 cm
Contents:
No such thing as the "American Farmer" -- Farming is all about the money, even when it isn't -- The economic decentralization of nearly everything -- The ripening of a "Rurban" culture -- The barns at the center of the garden farm universe -- Backyard sheep -- Hauling livestock: the ultimate test of your farming mettle -- The cow stable: health spa of the future -- The rise of the modern plowgirl -- Finding and keeping a new age farm partner -- Big data and robot farming -- The invasion of the paranoids -- One cow's forage is another cow's poison -- Pasture farming is part of garden farming -- The wild-plant explorers -- The most stubborn farmer of us all -- Have we deflowered our virgin soils? -- The ressurection of a really free market -- Artisanal food in the new age of farming -- Why fake steak won't ever rule the meat market -- The homebodies -- If Michelangelo had to drive to work -- A fable about the end of "get big or get out" -- The real background behind the fading of industrial farming -- In praise of rural simplicity (whatever that is).
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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.--COVER.
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