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• ISBN: 0865470510 :
• ISBN: 9780865470514
• ISBN: 0865470529 (pbk.)
• ISBN: 9780865470521 (pbk.)
• Physical Description: xviii, 281 p. ; 21 cm.
• Publisher: San Francisco : North Point Press, 1981.

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An agricultural journey in Peru -- Three ways of farming in the Southwest -- The native grasses and what they mean -- The International Hill Land Symposium -- Sanitation and the small farm -- Horse-drawn tools and the doctrine of labor saving -- Agricultural solutions for agricultural problems -- Energy in agriculture -- Solving for pattern -- The economics of subsistence -- Family work -- The reactor and the garden -- A good scythe -- Looking ahead -- Home of the free -- Going back, or ahead, to horses -- A few words for motherhood -- A rescued farm -- An excellent homestead -- Elmer Lapp's place -- A talent for necessity -- New roots for agricultural research -- Seven Amish farms -- The gift of good land.

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