Gene Logsdon breaks down the garden walls and celebrates the side of gardening that isn't a finicky, style-obsessed, and expensive hobby but rather a hilarious,

Offers the practical advice of a manual for the cottage farmer as well as meditation in praise of work and pleasure.

For decades, Logsdon and his family have run a viable family farm. Along the way, he has become a widely influential journalist and social critic, documenting i

To his legions of readers, Gene Logsdon is best known as the Contrary Farmer. This is Logsdon's ode to the watery microcosms all around, from the half-acre farm

First published in 1977, this book—from one of America’s most famous and prolific agricultural writers—became an almost instant classic among homestead ga