Logsdon, Gene, — The Contrary Farmer.

White River Jct, VT, Chelsea Green Pub Co, (1994). 3rd ptg. VG PB ex-library. Logsdon believes the answer for the decline in family farms and the domination of chemical-intensive factory farming is cottage. farming, farming part time for fun and profit. Combines the virtues of a manual for the practicing farmer with eloquent meditation in praise of work and pleasure, gives its readers tools and tenets as well as hilarious stories and beautiful evocations of the Ohio countryside Logsdon knows as his place in the universe. How to farm advice, agroeconomic theory, and lyrical effusions. Library markings. Logsdon farms on 32 acres in Upper SAndusky, Ohio, a mile from his boyhood home.