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An organic guide to growing, processing, and using nutritious whole grains, for home gardeners and local farmers by gene logsdon. I thoroughly enjoyed the book, although as usual i felt it glossed over some very important aspects of bringing grain growing to the backyard. He wrote many books and hundreds of articles for numerous publications including new farm, mother jones, orion. Small scale grain raising gene logsdon wrote smallscale grain raising in the 1970s, and though it was popular then with backtotheland readers, it eventually went out of print. Now that youve got an idea of which grains to try growing in your backyard and how much space you need to grow the grains, lets talk about the actual growing process. How to grow your own grains, smallscale grain raising. Appropriate seed varieties for smallscale farmers fao. An organic guide to growing, processing, and using nutritious whole grains for home gardeners and local farmers, 2nd edition. A relatively easy and inexpensive way to thresh grainsbeans on a smallhomestead scale. Chelsea green publishing brought it back this year, and just in time. How to establish a smallscale, pastured poultry operation. Enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free kindle app. Pastured poultry is a niche market that taps into increased consumer demand for more natural and humanely raised protein sources.
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Small grain production manual the small grain production manual presents essential information on producing wheat, barley, oat, triticale, and rye, from growth and development through seedbed preparation, fertilization, and irrigation, to pest management, crop rotation, cover cropping, and harvesting and storage. Posted in beginning farmer, beginning farming, gene logsdon, organic small grains, small grains, smallscale grain farming on march 5, 2008 27 comments after yesterdays post, where i mentioned my interest in raising small, and the comments that followed i decided i would try and do a little research into small scale small grain farming. Although we have tried many different grains including hulless varieties, we now grow wheat, oats and barley regularly. While raising rabbits is a laborintensive endeavor, there are many reasons to consider doing so on a small farm. When we think of growing grains, typically a vast horizon of wheat heads comes to mind. In small scale grain raising, logsdon lays out clearly just how easy it can be to grow grains for your family and your livestock, from his beloved pancake patch up to acresized plots. After yesterdays post, where i mentioned my interest in raising small, and the comments that followed i decided i would try and do a little research into small scale small grain farming. Grain bird flu crisis small farms are the solution not. Smallscale grain raising as the next step in my pursuit of easy to grow grains, i decided to take everyones advice and read smallscale grain raising by gene logsdon. Armed with a copy of gene logsdons book small scale grain raising, we began raising grain 14 years ago. Building soils for better crops, ii edition download this 240 page book free as a pdf file.
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