Horse-Powered Farming for the 21st Century: A Complete Guide to Equipment, Methods, and Management for Organic Growers

Using draft animal power requires adoption of a foreign mindset, knowledge, and many hours of practice. Resources like this, and other people to learn from are critical. This book starts you on the path to ALL of those. This book is very helpful at helping you understand the actual gear and methods, as well as helping you find the community of people in this small but amazing movement. The success stories of real people and farms using these methods right now are amazing.

Using petroleum -based agriculture is the epitome of inefficiency. Some studies indicate that it takes 10 calories of fossil fuel energy to produce one calorie of food energy. whether you love industrial agriculture or hate it, it is unsustainable. Using animal power (human and non-human) could be part of the solution . this book contains lots of information on how to do it humanely.

Fantastic survey of modern animal powered farming. Highly recommended for anyone interested in sustainable food production and earth-friendly farming.

Informative and an interesting read that is inspirational for anyone considering farming and working with draft animals.

Great book! Great resource...

Ottimo libro, ben descrittivo, completo e avvalorato da immagini.Si tratta di un testo in lingua inglese utile a chi si approccia all'argomento.Esprime l'esperienza principalmente americana ma anche mondiale dell'agricoltura a traino animale

Fantastic book! Better than I was expecting! Discusses variety of horse drawn modern implements.

An excellent book to have for anyone who does/wants to work horses