The Mother of All Arts: Agrarianism and the Creative ...
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$35.00
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Wyeth People
Wyeth People is the story of one writer's search for the meaning of artistic creativity, approached from personal contact with the work of one of the world's great artists, Andrew Wyeth. In the 1960s, just beginning his career as a writer, Gene Logsdon ... [... more]
$16.95
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All Flesh Is Grass: Pleasures & Promises Of Pasture Farming
In All Flesh Is Grass: The Pleasures and Promises of Pasture Farming, Gene Logsdon explains that well-managed pastures are nutritious and palatable-virtual salads for livestock. Leafy pastures also hold the soil, increase biodiversity, and create lovely ... [... more]
$34.95
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You Can Go Home Again: Adventures of a Contrary Life ...
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 ... [... more]
$34.95
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Good Spirits: A New Look at Ol' Demon Alcohol
Here we go. Gene The Contrary Farmer Logsdon has taken on some controversial subjects in his time, but this time he has bitten off (“sipped on” doesn’t sound right) a topic bound to raise strong feelings on both sides of society’s moral boundary lines. ... [... more]
$14.95
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The Man Who Created Paradise: A Fable (Ohio Bicentennial)
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 ... [... more]
$20.00
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The Contrary Farmer's Invitation to Gardening
Gene Logsdon has done it again! One of his earlier books, The Contrary Farmer, is one of the most moving, sensible, readable books about sustainable farming on the market. Now Logsdon successfully applies that wry wit, wisdom, and storytelling faculty to ... [... more]
$16.95
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LORDS OF FOLLY
This is a brilliantly comic novel set in mid-20th century America. Logsdon tells the story of a time and place long gone, of eccentric characters and old-time religion. The setting is rural Minnesota in the early 1950s, where a group of seminarians make ... [... more]
$28.95
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Living at Nature's Pace: Farming and the American Dream
For decades, Logsdon and his family have run a viable family farm. Along the way, he has become a widely influential journalist and social critic, documenting in hundreds of essays for national and regional magazines the crisis in conventional agri- ... [... more]
$25.00
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The Pond Lovers
To his legions of readers, Gene Logsdon is best known as the Contrary Farmer. His writings, which blend commonsense advice, curmudgeonly wit, and respect for the earth, are manna to anyone who wants to live, as Logsdon puts it, "at nature's pace.& ... [... more]
$16.95
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Wildlife in the Garden: How to Live in Harmony With ...
Contrary gardener Gene Logsdon has found an imaginative way to introduce gardeners to a more total enjoyment of nature--fauna as well as flora. What gardeners consider pests (rabbits devouring petunias, deer browsing the morning glories), Logsdon views ... [... more]
$13.37
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The Contrary Farmer (Real Goods Independent Living Book)
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 ... [... more]
$19.95
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