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Back in print for a new generation of fruit-growers, "Organic Orcharding" will teach you everything you need to know about planning, planting, and maintaining your very own orchard.

Gene Logsdon is renowned in the agricultural community for his creative, pragmatic, and holistic take on farming of all kinds. In "Organic Orcharding" he explains how to select the best trees for your orchard's climate; which tree varieties best complement each other; when each variety blooms; and when you ought to harvest. You'll also find insightful tips on: Developing woodlots Preventing diseases in fruit...

Nan turned to see Ben s face turn as hard and white as a sauerkraut crock. When he did not respond, Nan figured that he was just going to back off as he usually did, the shy and retiring husbandman. She did not know her history. She did not know that shy and retiring husbandmen have been known to revolt against oppression with pitchforks drawn.
"The Last of the Husbandmen"
In "The Last of the Husbandmen, " Gene Logsdon looks to his own roots in Ohio farming life to depict the personal triumphs and tragedies, clashes and compromises, and abiding human character of American...

In his insightful new 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 wastefulness makes even less sense as the supply of mined or chemically synthesized fertilizers dwindles and their cost skyrockets. In fact, he argues, if we do not learn how to turn our...

The organic homestead means something deeper than either the nobility of work or the pleasantness of leisure. What it must provide -- if the homestead is to have true success -- is a shrine to tranquility, an island of calm sanity to which you can retreat each day from the hectic outside world. "

Gene Logsdon is uniquely qualified to write about homesteading -- his heart has never been far from the land. He was born and raised on his family s farm, and as an adult he established a two-acre homestead before moving on to operate a 32-acre farm of his own.

A prolific writer on a range...