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Reviewed on January 1, 2017 | Science and Technology
Taking his theory and practice from John Jeavons's biointensive How To Grow More Vegetables, the author covers the motivation, personal philosophy, and everyday experiences that led him and 14 other subjects to work the land. Almost all of the geographically diverse representatives were farmhands before being farmers. A few of the stories date from the 1960s and 1980s; over half of the farms were started in the past ten years, much higher than the census of agriculture's 18 perce...Log In or Sign Up to Read More