Letter to a Young Farmer: How to Live Richly without Wealth on the New Garden Farm
Author Gene Logsdon, Foreword by Wendell Berry
- Publish Date: January 26, 2017
- Format: eBook
- Category: Cooking - Essays & Narratives
- Publisher: Chelsea Green
- Pages: 232
- US Price: $12.99
- CDN Price: $24.95
- ISBN: 978-1-60358-726-6
Reviews
"This engaging, conversational book dispenses life advice for farmers and others who seek to live close to the earth. . . It seems likely to lure many a gardening neophyte to the farm life, though it takes care to stress the difficulty of this path too. Above all, it preaches consistency, locality, and the long view, occasionally contrasting this philosophy with the frantic pace of mainstream modern life. . . With its unique point of view, Letter to a Young Farmer is a must-read piece of environmental, agricultural, and social philosophy.”—Foreword Reviews
“Along with other hard-earned advice about hauling livestock, pasturing chickens, and controlling weeds, Logsdon’s lifetime of farming wisdom is firmly lodged in common sense. Sagacious and sly, practical and poetic, Logsdon’s voice may have been contrarian but it was never condescending.”—Booklist
“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 foreword
“This work serves as a guiding light and lodestar for farmers facing the modern challenges of any farming operation, large or small.”—Publishers Weekly