Successful Small-Scale Farming: An Organic Approach Paperback - 1991 - 2nd Edition
by Karl Schwenke
From the rear cover
When I first wrote Successful Small-Scale Farming eleven years ago, writes Karl Schwenke in the preface to this new edition, "an 'organic farmer' was synonymous with a 'lonely hippie troublemaker.' Today he is classed somewhere between a high-priced elitist and an opportunistic liar."
So begins this classic guide to organic small-scale agriculture, fully updated and revised for the 1990s -- for a new generation of readers who would like to live closer to the earth.
Successful Small-Scale Farming introduces anyone owning (or planning to own) a small farm to both the harsh realities and the real potential involved in making a full- or part-time living on the land. Karl Schwenke's clear-eyed approach to the best farming methods covers a wide range of proven techniques and practical advice, including:* How to improve, conserve, and enrich your soil organically, to ensure the highest (and healthiest) yields.
* What machinery you'll need and how to use it.* The best "cash crops" and specialty crops to grow for profit and how to raise them.
* How to use innovative strategies to find or create a market "niche" for your farm's crops or services.* A concise overview of essential farmstead skills, such as haying, fencing, and managing a woodlot.
* Numerous charts and tables that put useful calculations at your fingertips.With today's increased concern for the quality of the food we eat and the health of our environment, Successful Small-Scale Farming offers a unique and invaluable perspective on the future of agriculture. Karl Schwenke's message -- that small-scale farms can be cleaner, smarter, and more efficient than corporate agribusiness -- has never been so relevant as it is today.
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- Title Successful Small-Scale Farming: An Organic Approach
- Author Karl Schwenke
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 2nd
- Edition 2
- Pages 144
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Storey Publishing, Pownal, VT
- Date 1991-01-04
- ISBN 9780882666426 / 0882666428
- Weight 0.96 lbs (0.44 kg)
- Dimensions 10.88 x 8.56 x 0.43 in (27.64 x 21.74 x 1.09 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Agriculture - Handbooks, manuals, etc, Organic farming - Handbooks, manuals, etc
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 90050417
- Dewey Decimal Code 630.973
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