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Hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Edition. The final book by the self-described ?contrary farmer? and writer Gene Logsdon (1931/1932?2016). Completed only weeks before his death, it is a collection of essays framed as an open letter to young people drawn to small-scale farming. Wendell Berry contributes a foreword praising Logsdon?s patient, practical, and lightly humorous approach to living on the land without destroying it.Logsdon addresses the rise of ?garden farmers??people pursuing modest, diversified, bio-intensive operations rather than the industrial ?get big or get out? model. He argues that a good life on the land is possible without great wealth by staying small, avoiding heavy debt, diversifying income and assets, living simply, valuing rural traditions and place, and using ?right technologies? that work smarter rather than harder. The book celebrates the beauty of nature, the satisfaction of growing food, and the personal contentment that can come from a rooted rural life, while acknowledging real challenges.ABOUT THIS COPY: First edition hardcover, bound in off-white paper. Illustrated cover in a deep plumb with matching lettering, also on the spine. Dark hunter green endpapers. xiv, 210 pp. A very nice copy in like new condition. Full refund if not satisfied.…