Letter to a young farmer
Subtitle: how to live richly without wealth on the new garden farm
By: Gene Logsdon ; foreword by Wendell Berry
Contributors: Berry, Wendell, 1934- writer of foreword
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781603587259
Subjects: Farm life; Agriculture; Anecdotes
Other titles: How to live richly without wealth on the new garden farm
Description: "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"--Page [4] of cover.
Table of contents: title: No such thing as "The American Farmer"; title: Farming is all about the money, even when it isn't; title: The economic decentralization of nearly everything; title: The ripening of a "Rurban" culture; title: The barns at the center of the garden farm universe; title: Backyard sheep; title: Hauling livestock : the ultimate test of your farming mettle; title: The cow stable : health spa of the future; title: The rise of the modern plowgirl; title: Finding and keeping a new age farm partner; title: Big data and robot farming; title: The invasion of the paranoids; title: One cow's forage is another cow's poison; title: Pasture farming is part of garden farming; title: The wild-plant explorers; title: The most stubborn farmer of us all; title: Have we deflowered our virgin soils?; title: The ressurection of a really free market; title: Artisanal food in the new age of farming; title: Why fake steak won't ever rule the meat market; title: The homebodies; title: If Michelangelo had to drive to work; title: A fable about the end of "get big or get out"; title: The real background behind the fading of industrial farming; title: In praise of rural simplicity (whatever that is).