Successful Small-Scale Farming: An Organic Approach

by Karl Schwenke

Overview

Offering proven techniques and practical advice, this inspiring handbook covers all aspects of successfully running a small organic farm. With expert tips on everything from buying land to creating a niche market for your products, Karl Schwenke shows you how to naturally enrich your soil, acquire necessary equipment, consistently grow abundant crops, and manage farm finances. You’ll enjoy learning essential skills like haying and fencing as you turn your organic farming dream into a profitable reality. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780882666426
Publisher:	Storey Publishing, LLC
Publication date:	01/04/1991
Series:	Down-to-Earth Book Series
Edition description:	2nd ed
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.65(d)

About the Author

Karl Schwenke is a professional writer who lives with wife Sue on a farm in Newbury, Vermont, where they have raised strawberries, pigs and hay among other crops. Together, this couple has written the book Build Your Own Stone House, and Karl wrote the Storey title Successful Small-Scale Farming. His other work includes Sierra North and Sierra South from Wilderness Press, an organization in Berkeley, California, that he co-founded after graduating from college. Karl has also written In a Pig's Eye (Chelsea Green Publishing).

Table of Contents

Preface

Preface to the First Edition

Introduction

1 Soils

2 Plants

3 Farm Machinery

4 Farm Practices

5 Cash Crops

6 Other Cash & Specialty Crops

7 The Whole Farm

8 Conclusions

Appendix I: Handy Hints, Formulas & trivia

Appendix II: Charts, Tables & Addenda

Land Trust Organizations

Periodicals of Interest to Small-Scale Farmers

Suggested Reading

Index