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Logsdon, Gene.

Living at nature's pace : farming and the American dream / Gene Logsdon.

Rev. ed.

White River Junction, VT : Chelsea Green Pub. Co., ©2000.

xii, 257 pages ; 21 cm

"Logsdon reminds us that healthy, economical agriculture must work "at nature's pace" rather than trying to impose industrial order on the natural world. Foreseeing a future with "more farmers, not fewer," he looks for workable models among the Amish, among his lifelong neighbors in Ohio, and among resourceful urban gardeners and a new generation of definitely unorthodox organic growers creating an innovative farmers-market economy in every region of the country."--Jacket.

Agriculture -- United States.

Amish -- United States.

Country life -- United States.

Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, 1994.

Foreword / Wendell Berry -- Green Fields, Red Ink -- For Amber Waves of Green -- Our Hidden Wound -- The Failure of Agricultural Education -- Traditional Farming -- Knowing One's Place -- The Future: More Farmers, Not Fewer -- An Ecologically Sane Farm -- Amish Economics -- A Horse-drawn Economy -- The Barn Raising -- Not So Friendly Persuasion -- A Patriarch Passes -- A Woodcutter's Pleasures -- The Pond at the Center of the Universe -- My Wilderness -- I'm Glad I'm Not a "Real" Farmer -- Going to Market on a Warm Day in November -- Looking for a Midwestern Culture -- The Folly of Trying to Repress the Agrarian Impulse -- The Wheel of Life Turns Round and Round.

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189013256X

9781890132569

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