Table of Contents
Title Page
Introduction
PART I - FARMING
Nature as Measure
Stupidity in Concentration
I. CONFINEMENT, CONCENTRATION, SEPARATION
II. FACTORY FARMS VERSUS FARMS
III. SUSTAINABILITY
Agricultural Solutions for Agricultural Problems
A Defense of the Family Farm
Let the Farm Judge
Energy in Agriculture
Conservationist and Agrarian
Sanitation and the Small Farm - (1971)
Renewing Husbandry
PART II - FARMERS
Seven Amish Farms
A Good Farmer of the Old School
Charlie Fisher
A Talent for Necessity
Elmer Lapp’s Place
THE COMMERCIAL PATTERN
THE PATTERN OF SUBSISTENCE
THE PATTERNS OF SOIL HUSBANDRY
TWO KINDS OF HORSEPOWER
A WELL-PLANNED BARN
THE ECOLOGICAL PATTERN
ON The Soil and Health
Agriculture from the Roots Up
PART III - FOOD
AUTHOR’S NOTE
FROM That Distant Land
FROM Hannah Coulter
FROM Andy Catlett
FROM “Misery”
FROM The Memory of Old Jack
FROM Jayber Crow
The Pleasures of Eating
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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