Gold in the Grass: Rags to Riches Through Soil Reclamation and Sustainable Farming (Back-to-the-Land Adventures) (Volume 3)

As World War II was ending, Alfred Leatherbarrow, a wounded Canadian veteran, and his nurse, Margaret, fell in love. They married, bought their dream farm and discovered that their crops would not grow. The farm s soil had been exhausted through years of destructive tillage practices.

Faced with certain defeat, they used innovative farming techniques including a prototype forage harvester to gather grass for silage to restore the fertility of their farm.

This early experiment in sustainable agriculture not only saved the farm in a rags-to-riches turnaround, but showed other farmers in their region how to pull out of the death spiral of decreasing fertility, yields, and income.

Gold in the Grass is a love story, a back-to-the-land adventure, and an inspirational example of how conservation tillage can restore the fertility of a used-up farm. This is a great book, and has spent far too many of its sixty years out of print.

Gold in the Grass is Volume 3 of Norton Creek Press' Back-to-the-Land Adventure series. It's an example of the Norton Creek Press motto: Most of the best books are out of print and forgotten, but we can fix that!"

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