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How to subsist Richly without Wealth on the New Garden Farm
Gene Logsdon
Paperback
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“ In the midst of our epidemic fearfulness of the future and its so - far predicted hand brake and catastrophes , here is Gene patiently , quietly , with the right touch of merriment , babble out about the little , really possible ways of work out our one great problem : how to live on the Earth without destroying it . ”—Wendell Berry , from the prolusion
For more than four decade , the ego - described “ obstinate husbandman ” and writer Gene Logsdon has commented on the land of American Agriculture Department . InLetter to a Young Farmer , his concluding book of essay , Logsdon addresses the next genesis — untested masses who are moving back to the commonwealth to revel a in effect path of lifetime as small - scale “ garden farmers . ” It ’s a lifestyle that is n’t determine by accumulating riches or by the “ get big or get out ” factory farm mindset . Instead , it ’s one that recognizes the beauty of nature , cherishes the land , respects our confrere brute , and values rural tradition . It ’s one that also looks fore and embrace “ right technologies , ” including young and forward-looking way of life of solve smarter , not surd , and avoiding premature burnout .
make out only a few workweek before the author ’s dying , Letter to a Young Farmeris a remarkable will to the life and wisdom of one of the greatest rural philosopher and writers of our time . cistron ’s earthy card and sometimes irreverent humor combine with his valuable linear perspective on many wide - drift matter — everything from how to show a ram who ’s boss to enjoying the almost churchlike calmness of a well - build livestock barn .
read this book is like sitting down on the porch with a neighbour who has learn the ways of farming through years of farseeing reflection and practice . Someone , in short , who has “ go steady it all ” and has much to say , and much to teach us , if we only take the time to take heed and con . And Gene Logsdon was the respectable variety of teacher : equal parts storyteller , idealist , and rabble - arouser . His vision of a Carry Nation fill up with garden farmers , based in metropolis , towns , and countrysides , will resonate with many people , both vernal and old , who long to make a more sustainable , meaningful life for themselves and a better human beings for all of us .
“ perspicacious and sly , hard-nosed and poetic , Logsdon ’s articulation may have been contrarian but it was never stoop . ”—Booklist
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