Small-Scale Grain Raising by Gene Logsdon Available Now!

More and more Americans are seeking out locally grown foods, yet a large stumbling block to their efforts has been finding local sources for grains, which are grown mainly on large, distant, corporate farms. At the same time, commodity prices for grains-and the products made from them-have skyrocketed due to rising energy costs and increased demand. Small-Scale Grain Raising, first published in 1977-from one of America's most famous and prolific agricultural writers-is now fully updated and available once more, offering an entirely new generation of readers the best introduction to a wide range of both common and lesser-known specialty grains and related field crops.

From corn, wheat, and rye to buckwheat, millet, rice, spelt, flax, and even beans and sunflowers, Gene Logsdon proves that anyone who has access to a large garden or small farm can (and should) think outside the agribusiness box and learn to grow healthy whole grains or beans alongside their fruits and vegetables.

Starting from the simple but revolutionary concept of the garden "pancake patch," Logsdon opens up our eyes to a whole world of plants that we wrongly assume small-scale farmers and gardeners can't grow. He covers all the basics, from planting and dealing with pests, weeds, and diseases to harvesting, processing, storing, and using whole grains.

Never has there been a better time, or a more receptive audience, for this book. Localvores, serious home gardeners, CSA farmers, and whole-foods advocates-in fact, all people who value fresh, high-quality foods-will find a field full of information and ideas in this once and future classic.

"Gene Logsdon could just say, 'I told you so.' Instead, he has revitalized Small-Scale Grain Raising with bushels of new information, thirty additional years of insight, and the welcome leavening of his wonderful and cranky (with a wink and a nod) voice. He makes sowing sexy, and shifts the food revolution from his back 40 to your back yard."

Gene Logsdon farms in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. He is one of the clearest and most original voices of rural America. He has published more than two dozen books; his Chelsea Green books include Small-Scale Grain Raising (Second Edition), Living at Nature's Pace, The Contrary Farmer's Invitation to Gardening, Good Spirits, and The Contrary Farmer. He writes a popular blog at OrganicToBe.org, is a regular contributor to Farming magazine and The Draft Horse Journal, and writes an award-winning weekly column in the Carey, Ohio Progressor Times.