Gene Logsdon speaks up on behalf of "cottage farming," in which the average homeowner can grow much of what he or she needs to eat in a small-scale, part-time family garden. Emphasizing the joy of gardening, as well as the virtues of independence from institutionalized food sources, Logsdon also recounts humorous anecdotes in the midst of plenty ...
Here we go. Gene "The Contrary Farmer" Logsdon has taken on some controversial subjects in his time, but this time he has bitten off (sipped on doesnt sound right) a topic bound to raise strong feelings on both sides of societys moral boundary lines. His subject is alcohol and its traditional role on the family homestead. Not surprisingly, Gene ...
Logsdon proves that anyone who has access to a large garden or small farm can think outside the agribusiness box and learn to grow healthy whole grains or beans--the base of the culinary food pyramid--alongside fruits and vegetables.
Gene Logsdon, famous for his role as the "Contrary Farmer," writes about his life, which began on a farm in Ohio. He left to study for the priesthood but dropped out to attend graduate school and return to farming, editing a farming magazine, writing his many books on his philosophy of small-scale "cottage farming," and working the land again not ...
The result of Gene Logsdon's search to find the colourful people Wyeth painted and to interview them, this book was originally published in 1969. Believing that the artists' work is among the greatest ever produced, Logsdon solves the mystery of the creative impulse here.
The author explains why today's single-crop megafarms and the urban communities that depend on them are headed toward economic and biological crises. As he travels into the Amish country, a community whose care of the land and integration of business and family life offer valuable lessons, he reminds us of the importance of biological and ...
A Midst Mad Cow Scares and consumer concerns about how farm animals are bred, fed, and raised, many farmers and homesteaders are rediscovering the traditional practice of pastoral farming. Grasses, clovers, and forbs are the natural diet of cattle, horses, and sheep, and are vital supplements for hogs, chickens, and turkeys. Increasingly consumers ...
In "The Last of the Husbandmen", Gene Logsdon looks to his own roots in Ohio farming life to depict the personal triumphs and tragedies, clashes and compromises, and abiding human character of American farming families and communities. From the Great Depression, when farmers tilled the fields with plow horses, to the corporate farms and government ...
"The Pond Lovers" is a sustainable farmer's ode to the watery microcosms all around us, from the half-acre farm pond to the suburban garden pool. Readers looking for hands-on experience will find plenty of pond-keeping dos and don'ts. Gene Logsdon's higher purpose, however, is to proclaim the natural, spiritual, and recreational benefits of ponds. ...
This collection of Gene Logsdon's essays (written between 1980 and 1992 and published in a variety of journals) survey the state of farming in America today. An angry and outspoken critic of agribusiness, the demise of rural communities, and the rape of the land, Logsdon writes in favor of the small-scale family farm, and deplores the emphasis in ...
'From his hiding place inside the overturned flowerpot in Smith's garden, Toad dozes with one eye open. Toad's scientific name is Bufo americanus, just as Smith's is Homo sapiens, but neither Toad nor Smith attaches much importance to the niceties of scientific accuracy. Toad's list of important matters scarcely extends beyond the length of his ...
Once upon a time people thought gardens were flat, rectangular, and planted in rows. People grew vegetables such as lettuce, carrots, and tomatoes. Then Gene Logsdon, the self-proclaimed dean of American curmudgeons, came along to smash the concept of garden to smithereens. Gene Logsdon is an American original, a farmer who thinks, and a writer ...
This book is intended to be a picture of life on a farm in Southern Ohio in the 1930's. It is a portrait of farm life as thousands of men and women experienced it from one end of the country to the other and from pioneering times to the resent century.
A comic novel set in rural Minnesota in the early 1950s, where a group of seminarians make their way to Ascension Seminary to complete their education. The protagonist, Blaise, changes the spelling of his name to Blaze, and he and his friends lead a band of brothers who come to be known as 'the most troublesome class in seminary history'. They ...
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How to grow more vegetables than you ever thought possible on less land than you can imagine.
