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 05-05-2017, 12:09 Post: 50895
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  Have you read Wendell Berry?

Gene Logsdon, for starters, especially "The Contrary Farmer," "The Contrary Farmer's Invitation to Gardening," and "You Can Go Home Again." Amazon has them. Also try Karl Schwenke's "Successful Small Scale Farming."

If it's farm-scale organic vegetables you're interested in, the best author has to be Eliot Coleman.






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 05-06-2017, 07:47 Post: 50906
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  Have you read Wendell Berry?

For organic gardening publications on the farm scale you might look at "Small Farm Today" and "Acres USA." You can find them at www.smallfarmtoday.com and www.acresusa.com. Acres USA is more purely organic practice but Small Farm Today has a strong preference for organic with a dose of pragmatism. Acres USA occasionally strays to the weird side with "biodynamic farming," which is sort of mystical and partly pseudoscientific, and political ranting and raving by the founder/editor, but ignoring that stuff you get the best large scale organic farming articles.

These two magazines have book sections and will lead you to all sorts of organic farming books you would never have heard of.

You'll also learn alot through the right seed and supply companies. Look at Southern Exposure Seed Exchange (www.southernexposure.com) and Peaceful Valley Farm Supply (www.groworganic.com). Southern Exposure is particularly good for southern farms. Peaceful Valley is on the west coast but carries alot of equipment and other supplies in addition to seed. Both carry books.

My own experience with the government ag service has not been good. Basically what you'll get is a recommendation to put X tons of 10-10-10 per acre and if its organic you want go get some city sewage plant sludge (I'm serious).






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