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1.		The Contrary Farmer (Real Goods Independent Living Book) from Chelsea Green Price: $13.57 Customer Review: While journalist minions report the family farm is dying or dead. Gene Logsdon proves that the family farm is thriving. Not only is the family farm thriving, but it is the solution to the current food crisis, a way to bring families closer together and make a small profit as well. This book is... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

2.		All Flesh Is Grass: Pleasures & Promises Of Pasture Farming from Swallow Press Price: $12.89 Customer Review: I found this as one of the best books on this subject (grazing, non-conventional agriculture, small scale farming), that melded practical information with well-founded global concerns. Really made one take a hard look at 'conventional agriculture' - which by definition is not sustainable. There... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

3.		Day Range Poultry: Every Chicken Owner's Guide to Grazing Gardens and Improving Pastures from Good Earth Publications Price: $19.80 Customer Review: This is a great book for commercial chicken operations. This book is not much use for the small flock owner. For small flock or backyard flock owners I recommend "The Chicken Tractor" by the same authors..	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

4.	[no image]	Gene Logsdon's Practical Skills: A Revival of Forgotten Crafts, Techniques, and Traditions from Rodale Pr Customer Review: I found a copy at a garage sale, took it home to my husband. In the process of moving, changing jobs, we had to once give up all our stuff, including this book. Now that we want the self reliant country lifestyle on a 5-40 acre farm, we can't find another book like it in the world. And my... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

5.		Living at Nature's Pace: Farming and the American Dream from Chelsea Green Price: $22.50 Customer Review: The volume titled "At Nature's Pace" is an earlier edition of the better-known one released several years later, with a half-dozen or so additional essays, under the title "Living at Nature's Pace." Not having read the latter yet, I can't comment on what the extra essays added to the ones originally... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

6.		The P Lovers from University of Georgia Press Price: $11.53 Customer Review: I thought this presentation was a nice balance between providing information regarding the creation and upkeep of a country pond and the value of ponds in the lives of real people. I took a few notes as I read to guide me through the process of adding a pond to our land in the Midwest. I also... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

7.		The Last of the Husbandmen: A Novel of Farming Life from Ohio University Press Price: $12.71 Customer Review: The traditional family farmer has all but been driven out of business by factory farms. This is am exceptional tale of one's man's struggle to continue the family farm lifestyle in opposition to the philosophy of "get big or get out". An enjoyable and warm, family drama. (If you like Wendell Berry's... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

8.		Good Spirits: A New Look at Ol' Demon Alcohol from Chelsea Green Price: $14.95 Customer Review: Good Spirits by Gene Logsdon is a light, easy read, suitable for reading on rainy summer days while swinging on the front porch swing. Best served with cold wine coolers, inexpensive California Chablis, home-made beer and/or gin-&-lemonade. Gene Logsdon writes, "On the subject of alcohol,... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

9.	[no image]	Small-Scale Grain Raising from Rodale Press Customer Review: This is a great book, with lots of good info. It really makes things less complicated. Also, this book can be downloaded for free online, do a little bit of searching ;)	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

10.		You Can Go Home Again from Wooster Book Company Price: $11.86 Customer Review: This book is about the idea that we can go back to a slow, sane and thoughtful way of life. The story is autobiographical and describes the life of the author in a rural area of north western Ohio. He leaves home to train for the priesthood but decides that he isn't cut out for it. He goes home for... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

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