TY  - BOOK
AU  - Logsdon,Gene
AU  - Berry,Wendell
TI  - Letter to a young farmer: how to live richly without wealth on the new garden farm 
SN  - 9781603587259
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - White River Junction, Vermont
PB  - Chelsea Green Publishing
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - United States
KW  - Anecdotes
KW  - Farm life
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Essays
N1  - No such thing as the "American Farmer" -- Farming is all about the 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 -- Finding 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 is 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)
N2  - 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
ER  -