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A Complete Guide to Equipment , Methods , and Management for Organic Growers
Stephen Leslie
Hardcover
$ 45.00
With contribution from more than 60 contemporaneous draft - fauna - powered farmers and equipment manufacturersNow is a time of exciting raw developments for live animal great power . As the number of adherents to this way of life originate , ecologically given farmers in their field are developing efficient knight - draw systems , and equipment maker in minuscule shops all across North America and Europe are come off with new initiation in earth - drive technology that have us poise on the leaflet of another agricultural revolution — with work cavalry , mule , donkeys , and oxen at the affection of it .
Stephen Leslie ’s first Word of God , The New Horse - Powered Farm , presented an overview of the many facet of running a small , diversified farm with live cavalry power . Horse - Powered Farming for the twenty-first Century is focused entirely on the tools and methods required to successfully manage the sawbuck - power market garden with draft animal power . However , this is not a step - by - step how - to guide outlining one single system , but rather a manual that presents a range of options and approaches . Leslie examines the function and use of all the implements typically employed on a contemporary gulp - animal - powered market place garden and exemplify these points with insightful report from the field , farm profile , and home - built solutions lend by over sixty draft animal - power granger from across North America and Europe .
Each truck driver ’s story represent a patch in a quilt that is woven together with a narrative thread to steer the reviewer through the whole fabric of the growing season , from dirt formulation to harvest . The account book structure pursue the seasonal progress of implements , begin with several examples of present-day bill of exchange - animal - power green goods farm ; next an exam of the versatile utility of forecarts ; then taking an in - profoundness look at richness direction on the farm ; moving on through main and secondary tillage , seeding and transplantation ; then on to the multifold selection for cultivators , pecker letter carrier , and multipurpose implement , with technical harnessing and hitching details for the best use of the implements . For experienced teamsters and set about market growers farming with horses , this is an invaluable and one - of - a - kind template , certain to last evermore in the agricultural canyon .
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