Buying and Setting Up Your Small Farm or Ranch
Lynn R. Miller is one of the country's foremost experts on small farms. A  multi-faceted speaker, author, storyteller, artist, teacher, and farmer, his  efforts to champion the causes, and advocate the support, of the small  independent family-based farms and ranches of North America have made a  significant difference. Miller has been farming since 1970 and working with  draft horses since 1973. In 1976 he conceived of and started The Small  Farmer's Journal, an international farm quarterly. To this day he functions  as editor/publisher and as such he offers, to over 40,000 subscribers around  the world a powerful tool for self-sufficiency, sustainability and community.Miller has authored (and sometimes illustrated) over 12 books on various  topics related to animal power and alternative agriculture, including; The  Small Farm Dream is Possible, Why Farm, The Workhorse Handbook,  Buying a Farm, Work Horses Today, Training Workhorses, Thought Small,  Ten Acres Enough, Horsedrawn Plows & Plowing, Haying with Horses and  more. He has conducted workshops and lectured extensively throughout the  United States and Canada. He continues with research and development in  agriculture alternatives. He is currently farming a mixed crop/livestock,  high-desert, horse-powered, family ranch raising Belgian Draft Horses,  commercial beef cattle, free range poultry, potatoes, hay, grain, while  working to dovetail operations into an ever more beneficial symbiotic  relationship with the fragile surrounding wildlife habitat.