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An Organic Hero

  From Our Archives – October 2007 GENE LOGSDON (1931 – 2016) The Contrary Farmer Chuck Walters is almost blind but, using electronic equipment that can render printed words into sound, he continues to keep a lively presence in his magazine, Acres USA: The Voice of Eco-Agriculture and to turn out book after book on […]

Easy Way To Start A Grove Of Trees (with Black Walnut Jam Cake Recipe)

  Public Domain   From Our Archives – December 2007 GENE LOGSDON (1931 – 2016) The Contrary Farmer I spent an hour in late November planting two acres of bottom land to trees. If that sounds like a prodigious task to accomplish in such a short time, not to worry. All I had to do was […]

The Lovely, Life-Saving Virtue of Laziness

  From Our Archives GENE LOGSDON (1931 – 2016) The Contrary Farmer Surprise, surprise. The work ethic, before which our culture bows down in adoration, can result in failure perhaps as often as it does success. I came to that conclusion after many years of trying to follow an ecologically-sustainable lifestyle out on the ramparts […]

Gene’s New Book Is Out: Letter to a Young Farmer

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The Great Organic Potato Race (With Johnny Carson Potato Chip Video)

  GENE LOGSDON (1931 – 2016) From Our Archives Sept 2007 [What happened when a band of merry seminarians full of modern science, took on a traditional old farmer in a contest to decide whether potatoes grown organically would yield better than those grown chemically. An excerpt from the novel, The Lords of Folly, by […]

Gene Logsdon 1931 – 2016…

  From Filmers to Farmers Yes, I’ve read the headlines, and once again – although perhaps a bit more so than previous iterations – the previous year (2016) was one for fawning over many-a-departed pop stars. David Bowie, Prince, Leonard Cohen, George Michael, and many others. Pop stars aren’t really my thing, but if that stuff […]

The Adventures of Uno the Chick

  From Our Archives GENE LOGSDON (1931 – 2016) The Contrary Farmer The odds were against Uno ever coming into existence. With the cost of chicks from hatcheries getting higher, we decided to try to get one of our hens to hatch the few chicks we needed every year to replenish our little flock. But […]

Gems From The Lives Of Contrary Farmers

    From Our Archives August 2007 GENE LOGSDON (1931 – 2016) The Contrary Farmer A fellow contrary farmer, and also a shepherd in my neck of the woods, was having a problem. He found his flock ram dead in the lot behind the barn. Since long experience had convinced him that sheep love to […]

Oh Deer, What Can The Matter Be?

  From Our Archives August 2007 GENE LOGSDON (1931 – 2016) The Contrary Farmer Thirty years ago, if I saw a herd of twenty or thirty deer grazing in grain fields in our neighborhood, I would have thought seriously about going on the wagon and I don’t mean a hay wagon either. There were no […]

Just What We Need: Faster Tractors

  GENE LOGSDON (1931 – 2016) From Our Archives June 2007 Ohio’s politicians are considering a bill that would allow giant tractors to go 40 miles per hour on the highway. At present farm tractors are not supposed to be driven over 25 mph on public thoroughfares. The State House of Representatives has passed the […]