The Lean Micro Farm av Ben Hartman

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<p><strong>¿Ben Hartman is a true innovator for the small farm.¿¿Curtis Stone, author of <em>The Urban Farmer</em></strong></p><p><strong>It¿s time to think big about small farms. Award-winning author and ¿green leader¿ (<em>Grist</em>) Ben Hartman shares practical how-to tips, personal stories, and surprising examples of cutting-edge farmers and innovators around the world to show us how.</strong></p><p>In the early 1970s, US Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz infamously commanded farmers to ¿get big or get out.¿ In <em>The Lean Micro Farm</em>, author Ben Hartman rejects that disastrous suggestion and instead takes up the charge of the late agrarian thinker Gene Logsdon: ¿Get small and stay in.¿</p><p>Taking inspiration from the groundbreaking ideas of E. F. Schumacher and Mahatma Gandhi, <em>The Lean Micro Farm</em> shows how small, hyperlocal farms can be both ecologically and economically superior to industrial-scale operations geared toward export and commodity markets.</p><p><em>Th