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Horse-powered farming for the 21st century : a complete guide to equipment, methods, and management for organic growers / Stephen Leslie ; foreword by David Kline.
Veterinary: du Pont Library (New Bolton) SF311 .L44 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leslie, Stephen, 1961- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Draft horses--Utilization.
- Draft horses.
- Organic farming.
- Truck farming.
- Farm management.
- Physical Description:
- x, 401 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- White River Junction, Vermont : Chelsea Green Publishing, 2015.
- Summary:
- 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. --Publisher.
- Contents:
- Contemporary draft-animal-powered produce farms
- Forecarts of yesterday, today, and tomorrow
- Managing fertility in the draft-animal-powered market garden
- On plows and plowing
- Managing cover crops
- Disc harrows and drag harrows
- Cultimulchers: the horse-drawn combination tool
- Seeding options
- Mulch layers, transplanters, and irrigation
- Mechanical cultivation
- Tool carriers
- The homesteader and the all-in-one
- Bringing in the harvest.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781603586139
- 160358613X
- 1603586148
- 9781603586146
- OCLC:
- 911518582
- Publisher Number:
- 99996447982
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