This is a set of two books, The Contrary Farmer and Living at Nature's Pace by Gene Logsdon. The Contrary Farmer: Critics of American Agriculture bemoan the widespread decline of family farms and the dominion of chemical intensive factory farming. Gene Logsdon asserts that the solution to this crises is cottage farming--farming for fun as well as profit. The Contrary Farmer combines the virtues of a manual for the practicing farmer with eloquent meditations in praise of work and pleasure. The book gives its readers tools and tenets, but also hilarious stories and beautiful evocations of the Ohio countryside Logsdon knows as his place in the universe. Soft cover, 7" x 9", 236 pages. FREE SHIPPING! To order by phone call toll-free: 866-596-9982 Living at Nature's Pace: For decades author Gene Logsdon and his family have managed a lively and productive small farm (homestead actually). Along the way he has become a widely influential journalist and social critic of industrial agriculture. Here, Gene reminds us that healthy, economical agriculture must work "at Nature's pace" rather than trying to impose industrial order and time frames on the natural world. Foreseeing a future with more farmers, not fewer, he looks for workable models among the Amish, among his lifelong friends in Ohio, and among resourceful urban gardeners and organic growers who are creating an innovative farmers-market economy in every region of the country. Gene says" Nature knows how to raise plants and animals. Let's give her a chance." Soft cover, 6" x 9", 258 pages.