Instructs the beginning farmer in evaluating and preserving the soil, acquiring and maintaining machinery, and raising a successful crop through sound farming practices.
Instructs the beginning farmer in evaluating and preserving the soil, acquiring and maintaining machinery, and raising a successful crop through sound farming practices.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Karl Schwenke is a professional writer who lives with wife Sue on a farm in Newbury, Vermont, where they have raised strawberries, pigs and hay among other crops. Together, this couple has written the book Build Your Own Stone House, and Karl wrote the Storey title Successful Small-Scale Farming. His other work includes Sierra North and Sierra South from Wilderness Press, an organization in Berkeley, California, that he co-founded after graduating from college. Karl has also written In a Pig's Eye (Chelsea Green Publishing).
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Preface Preface to the First Edition Introduction 1 Soils 2 Plants 3 Farm Machinery 4 Farm Practices 5 Cash Crops 6 Other Cash & Specialty Crops 7 The Whole Farm 8 Conclusions Appendix I: Handy Hints, Formulas & trivia Appendix II: Charts, Tables & Addenda Land Trust Organizations Periodicals of Interest to Small-Scale Farmers Suggested Reading Index