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“gene logsdon”

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  • Successful Berry Growing

    How to Plant, Prune, Pick and Preserve Bush and Vine Fruits

    by Gene Logsdon ...
    A garden without berries is like spring without flowers. But with ever-increasing prices at grocery stores and markets, berries have sadly become a rare treat for most people. Successful Berry Growing is a book to solve this problem for good! A lifelong organic farmer, homesteader and student of everything agricultural, Gene Logsdon knows a thing or two about growing berries. And although ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lords of Folly

    A Novel

    by Gene Logsdon ...
    Veteran nature writer Gene Logsdon debuts a brilliantly comic novel set in rural Minnesota in the 1950s. The novel, inspired by the author's ten years studying in vain for the preisthood, follows the sometimes hilarious, sometimes tragic lives of a group of seminarians who realize they no longer believe the theology they are being taught, nor in the celibate life they are supposed to be leading. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lords of Folly

    A Novel

    by Gene Logsdon ...
    Veteran nature writer Gene Logsdon debuts a brilliantly comic novel set in rural Minnesota in the 1950s. The novel, inspired by the author's ten years studying in vain for the preisthood, follows the sometimes hilarious, sometimes tragic lives of a group of seminarians who realize they no longer believe the theology they are being taught, nor in the celibate life they are supposed to be leading. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Man Who Created Paradise

    A Fable

    by Gene Logsdon ...
    Gene Logsdon’s The Man Who Created Paradise is a message of hope at a time when the very concept of earth stewardship is under attack. The fable, inspired by a true story, tells how Wally Spero looked at one of the bleakest places in America—a raw and barren strip-mined landscape—and saw in it his escape from the drudgery of his factory job. He bought an old bulldozer and used the machine to carve ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Mother of All Arts: Agrarianism and the Creative Impulse

    by Gene Logsdon ...
    When Gene Logsdon realized that he experienced the same creative joy from farming as he did from writing, he suspected that agriculture itself was a form of art. Thus began his search for the origins of the artistic impulse in the agrarian lifestyle. The Mother of All Arts is the culmination of Logsdon"s journey, his account of friendships with farmers and artists driven by the urge to create. He ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Living at Nature's Pace

    Farming and the American Dream

    by Gene Logsdon ...
    For decades, Logsdon and his family have run a viable family farm. Along the way, he has become a widely influential journalist and social critic, documenting in hundreds of essays for national and regional magazines the crisis in conventional agri-business and the boundless potential for new forms of farming that reconcile tradition with ecology.Logsdon reminds us that healthy and economical ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Letter to a Young Farmer

    How to Live Richly without Wealth on the New Garden Farm

    by Gene Logsdon ...
    “In the midst of our epidemic fear of the future and its so-far predicted emergencies and catastrophes, here is Gene patiently, quietly, with the right touch of merriment, talking about the small, really possible ways of solving our one great problem: how to live on the Earth without destroying it.”—Wendell Berry, from the forewordFor more than four decades, the self-described “contrary farmer” ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Holy Shit

    Managing Manure to Save Mankind

    by Gene Logsdon ...
    In his insightful book, Holy Shit: Managing Manure to Save Mankind, contrary farmer Gene Logsdon provides the inside story of manure — our greatest, yet most misunderstood, natural resource.He begins by lamenting a modern society that not only throws away both animal and human manure, worth billions of dollars in fertilizer value, but that spends a staggering amount of money to do so. This ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Small-Scale Grain Raising

    An Organic Guide to Growing, Processing, and Using Nutritious Whole Grains for Home Gardeners and Local Farmers, 2nd Edition

    by Gene Logsdon ...
    First published in 1977, this book—from one of America’s most famous and prolific agricultural writers—became an almost instant classic among homestead gardeners and small farmers. Now fully updated!Small-Scale Grain Raising offers a entirely new generation of readers the best introduction to a wide range of both common and lesser-known specialty grains and related field crops, from corn, wheat, ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • A Sanctuary of Trees

    Beechnuts, Birdsongs, Baseball Bats, and Benedictions

    by Gene Logsdon ...
    As author Gene Logsdon puts it, "We are all tree huggers." But not just for sentimental or even environmental reasons. Humans have always depended on trees for our food, shelter, livelihood, and safety. In many ways, despite the Grimm's fairy-tale version of the dark, menacing forest, most people still hold a deep cultural love of woodland settings, and feel right at home in the woods.In this ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Gene Everlasting

    A Contrary Farmer's Thoughts on Living Forever

    by Gene Logsdon ...
    Author Gene Logsdon—whom Wendell Berry once called “the most experienced and best observer of agriculture we have”—has a notion: That it is a little easier for gardeners and farmers to accept death than the rest of the populace. Why? Because every day, farmers and gardeners help plants and animals begin life and help plants and animals end life. They are intimately attuned to the food chain. They ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

    by Camille T Dungy ...
    A “heartfelt and thoroughly enriching” (Aimee Nezhukumatathil, New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders) work that expands on how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Book Critics Circle finalist Camille T. Dungy diversifies her garden to reflect her heritage.In Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden poet and scholar Camille T. Dungy recounts the seven ... Read more

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