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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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Letter to a young farmer

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Gene Logsdon ; foreword by Wendell Berry

how to live richly without wealth on the new garden farm

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

No such thing as "The American Farmer" -- Farming is all about 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 -- Fining 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 as part of garden farming -- The wild-plant explorers -- The most stubborn farmer of us all -- Have we deflowered our virgin soils? -- The resurrection 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)

How to live richly without wealth on the new garden farm