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Sorry, here is the link to Gene Logsdon’s repost…

https://thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.c... ~~

Corn Is For Eating… Or Drinking

  [In the interest of keeping the community of Gene’s many admirers together around this blog site, Carol and I have decided to begin reposting Gene’s wonderful articles on an irregular basis. Hope you concur and enjoy… Also, Carol says that Gene’s last book has been accepted for future publication by his publisher. ~Dave Smith] […]

Here is a compilation of Gene’s radio interviews with Vick Mickunas…

  http://wyso.org/post/best-book-nook-r... Also, back in 2011 we invited blog readers to write articles about why they farm or homestead. Here they are… ~~

Alert from The Contrary Farmer: Radio Interviews With Gene Logsdon Compilation Tomorrow, Saturday, 6/11/16, 7am Eastern…

  From Dave Smith Vick Mickunas (WYSO) is putting together excerpts from past interviews with Gene and do a tribute show tomorrow, Saturday, at 7:00 A.M. EDST. 91.3 FM, streaming at WYSO. We will post this compilation on the blogsite permanently in a couple of weeks when available. Carol also informs me that Gene’s last […]

Farewell, Dear Gene…

  May 31, 2016 To Gene’s many friends from this blog, sadly, Gene passed away this morning, at home in Ohio with his family, after fighting cancer for several months. I’m sure this will come as a shock as you’ve had no warning. He continued writing up to a few days ago, and actually tried […]

Gardening In The Nude (or New Use For Rhubarb)

  From Gene Logsdon [Repost] One of the greatest mysteries of life for me is society’s ambivalence about the naked human body. People line up by the hundreds every day to get a look at Michelangelo’s anatomically-correct statue of David. But if a real live David were to stand naked beside that statue, the sex […]

Raw Deals Over Raw Milk

  From GENE LOGSDON One of the saddest stories I have ever written appeared in the February, 1982, issue of The New Farm magazine. It was about a farmer in Iowa who went to jail for selling raw milk. I don’t know if he is still alive and I doubt he wants to stir up […]

Lawn Farming, The Next Big Thing

From GENE LOGSDON Last week’s discussion in the comments section about making hay the simple, old fashioned way led me on to grandiose thoughts. Sounds crazy but the logic is all there. We have 40 million acres of lawns in this country. We spend $30 billion on lawn care. We annually irrigate our lawns with […]

Farming Is A Special Calling

From GENE LOGSDON All the delightful responses to my column the week before last about favorite farm and garden chores reflected a fact about farming that needs to be repeated over and over again. Producing food is not a job or a business but a calling. Only some of us are attracted to it. Only […]

Anthropomorphism, A Big Word Getting Bigger

From GENE LOGSDON Treating animals as if they were humans or ascribing human characteristics to animals, which is what anthropomorphism means, is gaining more cultural ground every day and giving farmers who produce meat a huge headache. Things have gone so far that some people equate eating any meat with cannibalism. Good grief. But if […]