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Horse-Powered Farming for the 21st Century - A Complete Guide to Equipment, Methods, and Management for Organic Growers (Hardcover)
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Horse-Powered Farming for the 21st Century - A Complete Guide to Equipment, Methods, and Management for Organic Growers (Hardcover)
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With contributions from more than 60 contemporary
draft-animal-powered farmers and equipment manufacturers Now is a
time of exciting new developments for live animal power. As the
numbers of adherents to this way of life grow, ecologically minded
farmers in their fields are developing efficient horse-drawn
systems, and equipment manufacturers in small shops all across
North America and Europe are coming forth with new innovations in
ground-drive technology that have us poised on the cusp of another
agricultural revolution-with working horses, mules, donkeys, and
oxen at the heart of it. Stephen Leslie's first book, The New
Horse-Powered Farm, presented an overview of the many facets of
running a small, diversified farm with live horse power.
Horse-Powered Farming for the 21st Century is focused entirely on
the tools and methods required to successfully manage the
horse-powered market garden with draft animal power. However, this
is not a step-by-step how-to guide outlining one single system, but
rather a manual that presents a range of options and approaches.
Leslie examines the function and use of all the implements
typically employed on a contemporary draft-animal-powered market
garden and illustrates these points with insightful reports from
the field, farm profiles, and home-built solutions contributed by
over sixty draft animal-powered farmers from across North America
and Europe. Each teamster's story represents a patch in a quilt
that is woven together with a narrative thread to guide the reader
through the whole fabric of the growing season, from soil
preparation to harvest. The book structure follows the seasonal
progression of implements, beginning with several examples of
contemporary draft-animal-powered produce farms; next an
examination of the versatile utility of forecarts; then taking an
in-depth look at fertility management on the farm; moving on
through primary and secondary tillage, seeding and transplanting;
then on to the multifold options for cultivators, tool carriers,
and multipurpose implements, with technical harnessing and hitching
details for the best use of the implements. For experienced
teamsters and beginning market growers farming with horses, this is
an invaluable and one-of-a-kind guide, sure to last forever in the
agricultural canon.
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