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Books by Gene Logsdon
  | | The Contrary Farmer(1st Edition) (Real Goods Independent Living Book) by Gene Logsdon Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1995 by Chelsea Green Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-930031-74-9, ISBN: 0-930031-74-1 "Gene Logsdon has become something of a rabble-rouser in progressive farm circles, stirring up debates and controversies with his popular New Farm Magazine column, The Contrary Farmer. One of Logsdon's principle contrarieties is the opinion that--popular images of the vanishing American farmer, notwithstanding--greater numbers of people in the U.S. will soon be growing and raising a greater share of their own food than at any time since ..." |
 | | Letter to a Young Farmer(Reprint) How to Live Richly without Wealth on the New Garden Farm by Gene Logsdon, Wendell Berry Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2018 by Chelsea Green Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-60358-806-5, ISBN: 1-60358-806-X "For more than four decades, the self-described “contrary farmer” and writer Gene Logsdon has commented on the state of American agriculture. In Letter to a Young Farmer, his final book of essays, Logsdon addresses the next generation―young people who are moving back to the land to enjoy a better way of life as small-scale “garden farmers.” It’s a lifestyle that isn’t defined by accumulating wealth or by the “get big or get out” agribusi ..." |
 | | Two Acre Eden(Reprint) by Gene Logsdon Paperback, 250 Pages, Published 2016 by Echo Point Books & Media ISBN-13: 978-1-62654-581-6, ISBN: 1-62654-581-2 "Two Acre Eden is more than your average how-to book. The first in a long line of beloved books by homesteading sage Gene Logsdon, Two Acre Eden is an insightful and light-hearted treatise on gardening, homesteading, and getting the most out of your land. With a healthy dose of humor and eye toward pragmatism, Logsdon dispenses page after page of unbeatable advice on designing, building, and living off of your very own two-acre Garden of ..." |
 | | Holy Shit Managing Manure to Save Mankind by Gene Logsdon, Brooke Budner Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2010 by Chelsea Green Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-60358-251-3, ISBN: 1-60358-251-7 "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 supp ..." |
 | | A Sanctuary of Trees Beechnuts, Birdsongs, Baseball Bats, and Benedictions by Gene Logsdon Paperback, 248 Pages, Published 2012 by Chelsea Green Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-60358-401-2, ISBN: 1-60358-401-3 "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 latest book, A Sanctuary of Trees, Logsdon ..." |
 | | The Mother of All Arts(1st Edition) Agrarianism and the Creative Impulse (Culture of the Land) by Gene Logsdon Hardcover, 344 Pages, Published 2007 by The University Press Of Kentucky ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-2443-8, ISBN: 0-8131-2443-3 "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 chronicles his long relationship with We ..." |
 | | You Can Go Home Again(1st Edition) Adventures of a Contrary Life (Farming Biography) by Gene Logsdon Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 1998 by Indiana University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-253-33419-0, ISBN: 0-253-33419-5 ""This is an enjoyable book that, for a brief while, will take many of its readers home." -News-Journal (Mansfield, OH) "[Logsdon] offers warmth and insight. The simpler life is within our reach-if we will choose it." -Booklist "This is a quiet, reflective work that describes in some detail the difficulty of developing and maintaining a lifestyle supported by the land, something easier planned than maintained...a memoir of the spiritua ..." |
 | | The gardener's guide to better soil by Gene Logsdon Hardcover, 260 Pages, Published 1975 by Rodale Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87857-106-2, ISBN: 0-87857-106-X "Book by Gene Logsdon, The Editors of Organic Gardening n Farming" |
 | | Successful Berry Growing How to Plant, Prune, Pick and Preserve Bush and Vine Fruits by Gene Logsdon Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 1974 by Rodale Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87857-089-8, ISBN: 0-87857-089-6 "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 "Successful Berry Growing" is geared to the sm ..." |
 | | Homesteading How to Find New Independence on the Land by Logsdon Gene Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2016 by Echo Point Books & Media ISBN-13: 978-1-62654-596-0, ISBN: 1-62654-596-0 |
 | | Organic Orcharding(Reprint) A Grove of Trees to Live In by Gene Logsdon Hardcover, 434 Pages, Published 2016 by Echo Point Books & Media ISBN-13: 978-1-62654-580-9, ISBN: 1-62654-580-4 "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 e ..." |
 | | Getting Food from Water(Reprint) A Guide to Backyard Aquaculture by Gene Logsdon Paperback, 386 Pages, Published 2016 by Echo Point Books & Media ISBN-13: 978-1-62654-598-4, ISBN: 1-62654-598-7 "Get your feet wet with another one of Gene Logsdon's brilliant guides! Don't shy away from aquaculture for fear that it is too complex and difficult. With a little guidance, this decades-old tradition can be practiced successfully on plots of all sizes. Engage your water ecosystem and take your organic garden or homestead to the next level! In Getting Food From Water: A Guide to Backyard Aquaculture, Gene Logsdon turns his attention ..." |
 | | You Can Go Home Again Adventures of a Contrary Life by Gene Logsdon Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2002 by Wooster Book Co. ISBN-13: 978-1-59098-218-1, ISBN: 1-59098-218-5 "Gene Logsdon's story embodies both the frustrations and longing so many of us feel as we search for our essential selves and a harmonious life. The measure of his courage -- and contrariness -- is that he has been successful. In You Can Go Home Again, he tells us what motivated him and what success has meant. For Logsdon, to create a home; is not to escape from the world, but to establish a nexus of people, all working together to produ ..." |
 | | Gene Everlasting(Reprint) A Contrary Farmer's Thoughts on Living Forever by Gene Logsdon Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2017 by Chelsea Green Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-60358-736-5, ISBN: 1-60358-736-5 "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 understand how all living things are sea ..." |
 | | Letter to a Young Farmer(1st Edition) How to Live Richly without Wealth on the New Garden Farm by Gene Logsdon, Wendell Berry Hardcover, 232 Pages, Published 2017 by Chelsea Green Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-60358-725-9, ISBN: 1-60358-725-X "For more than four decades, the self-described -contrary farmer- and writer Gene Logsdon has commented on the state of American agriculture. In Letter to a Young Farmer, his final book of essays, Logsdon addresses the next generation--young people who are moving back to the land to enjoy a better way of life as small-scale -garden farmers.- It's a lifestyle that isn't defined by accumulating wealth or by the -get big or get out- agribu ..." |
 | | Successful Berry Growing(Reprint) How to Plant, Prune, Pick and Preserve Bush and Vine Fruits by Gene Logsdon Paperback, 210 Pages, Published 2016 by Echo Point Books & Media ISBN-13: 978-1-62654-600-4, ISBN: 1-62654-600-2 "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 Successful Berry Growing is geared to the small- ..." |
 | | The Man Who Created Paradise(1st Edition) A Fable (Ohio Bicentennial) by Gene Logsdon, Wendell Berry, Contributor-Gregory Spaid, Gregory Spaid, Contributor-Wendell Berry Hardcover, 68 Pages, Published 2001 by Ohio University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8214-1407-1, ISBN: 0-8214-1407-0 "Gene Logsdon’s The Man Who Created Paradise is a message of hope at a time when the sustainability of the earth appears to many to be hopeless. The fable, inspired by a true story, tells how young Wally Spero looked at one of the bleakest places in Americathe strip-mined spoil banks of southeastern Ohioand saw in it his escape from the drudgery of his factory job. He bought an old bulldozer and used the machine to carve patiently, acr ..." |
 | | The Low-Maintenance House by Gene Logsdon Hardcover, 314 Pages, Published 1987 by Rodale Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-87857-718-7, ISBN: 0-87857-718-1 "Walls around institutional indoor swimming pools are often done in glazed masonry where sanitary but beautiful permanent ... of the Concrete Masonry Handbook for Architects, Engineers, Builders, by Frank A. Randall, Jr., and William C. Panarese (Portland ... Even though written for professionals, this book is easy to understand, with many precise drawings of how various masonry walls should be built." |
 | | Organic Orcharding(1st Edition) A Grove of Trees to Live In by Gene Logsdon Hardcover, 415 Pages, Published 1981 by Rodale Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87857-356-1, ISBN: 0-87857-356-9 "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 e ..." |
 | | Getting Food From Water(1st Edition) A Guide to Backyard Aquaculture by Gene Logsdon Hardcover, 371 Pages, Published 1978 by Rodale Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87857-232-8, ISBN: 0-87857-232-5 "Book by Logsdon, Gene" |
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