All Flesh Is Grass The Pleasures and Promises of Pasture Farming 1st Edition by Gene Logsdon 0804010692 9780804010696

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ISBN 10: 0804010692 

ISBN 13: 9780804010696

Author: Gene Logsdon

Amidst Mad Cow scares and consumer concerns about how farm animals are bred, fed, and raised, many farmers and homesteaders are rediscovering the traditional practice of pastoral farming. Grasses, clovers, and forbs are the natural diet of cattle, horses, and sheep, and are vital supplements for hogs, chickens, and turkeys. Consumers increasingly seek the health benefits of meat from animals raised in green paddocks instead of in muddy feedlots.

In All Flesh Is Grass: The Pleasures and Promises of Pasture Farming, Gene Logsdon explains that well-managed pastures are nutritious and palatable-virtual salads for livestock. Leafy pastures also hold the soil, foster biodiversity, and create lovely landscapes. Grass farming might be the solution for a stressed agricultural system based on an industrial model and propped up by federal subsidies.

In his clear and conversational style, Logsdon explains historically effective practices and new techniques. His warm, informative profiles of successful grass farmers offer inspiration and ideas. His narrative is enriched by his own experience as a “contrary farmer” on his artisan-scale farm near Upper Sandusky, Ohio.

All Flesh Is Grass will have broad appeal to the sustainable commercial farmer, the home-food producer, and all consumers who care about their food.

Table of contents:

1. Pasture Farming, the Newest and Oldest Agriculture

2. How I Came to Pasture Farming

3. Some Commercial Grass Farms

4. A Pasture Garden

5. Good Fences Still Make Good Neighbors

6. Water in Every Paddock

7. Pasturing Horses, Mules, and Donkeys

8. Sheep on Pasture

9. Milk and Beef from Pasture Cows

10. The Rising Farm Interest in Goats

11. Root, Hog, or Die

12. Chickens, Ducks, Geese, and Turkeys Love to Graze

13. Bluegrass, Ryegrass, and White Clover

14. Alfalfa, Red Clover, and Ladino Clover

15. Legumes of Regional Importance

16. Other Noteworthy Pasture Grasses

17. Grains for Grazing

18. Other Plants with Pasture Potential

19. Weeds-the Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful

20. Making Hay and Silage

21. Trees in the Pasture

22. A Walk on the Wild Side

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