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		<title>Talking To Animals</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From GENE LOGSDON Have you ever had this happen to you? You stop at a friend’s farm. Knowing he or she is in the barn doing chores, you saunter across the barnyard unannounced. You can hear your friend carrying on quite an animated conversation with someone. You walk through the barn door and there indeed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10047870&amp;post=5739&amp;subd=thecontraryfarmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can A Godless Farmer Be A Good Steward of the Soil?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From GENE LOGSDON There is a growing realization in organized religion that something is awry in our industrial food delivery system. Churches are actively urging their members to become more involved directly in local and family gardening and farming. This is great news for those of us who have been fighting this battle for a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10047870&amp;post=5730&amp;subd=thecontraryfarmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hail, The Mighty Pocketknife</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From GENE LOGSDON Time was, a farmer would feel naked without a pocketknife in his bibs. Even today, it is the handiest tool of all. There is always a bale twine to cut, a splinter in the skin to remove, a fingernail to trim,  a scion to be grafted, a hoof to be cleaned, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10047870&amp;post=5716&amp;subd=thecontraryfarmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe Old Tractors Do Die</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mulligan Books &#38; Seeds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From GENE LOGSDON After the conversations we had here recently about old tractors, I began to hear about a problem that really does affect their longevity.  Ethanol in gasoline is not the wonder fuel it has been made out to be. It is causing problems when used in off-road vehicles&#8212; lawn motors, chain saws, boat [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10047870&amp;post=5702&amp;subd=thecontraryfarmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Till Farming Not So Great After All</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From GENE LOGSDON It was just a couple of handfuls of soil and a few drops of water, but for the world of modern farming, it might as well have been a bomb dropping on the staid headquarters of the Natural Resources Conservation Service in Washington. It actually happened, or at least first made the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10047870&amp;post=5689&amp;subd=thecontraryfarmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Any “Tidings of Great Joy” This Sad Christmas?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mulligan Books &#38; Seeds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From GENE LOGSDON Yes. I was reading the Cleveland Plain Dealer the other day when I came across the most intriguing photograph. It was of a dark-skinned woman in colorful clothing with a huge basket of fresh vegetables balanced on her head. Behind her was a large, immaculately neat and verdant garden. Probably someplace in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10047870&amp;post=5679&amp;subd=thecontraryfarmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Search For the Imperfect Christmas Tree</title>
		<link>https://thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com/2011/12/15/my-search-for-the-imperfect-christmas-tree/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From GENE LOGSDON I used to think a lot about starting a Christmas tree farm. Hilly cheaper land could be used and I had some, machinery investment would be low, or so I thought, and the customer would maybe do the work of harvesting. What stopped me was what I took to be the insane [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10047870&amp;post=5663&amp;subd=thecontraryfarmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Old Tractors Never Die</title>
		<link>https://thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/old-tractors-never-die/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From GENE LOGSDON I see that the conversation on this website has turned lately to old tractors. On this subject I am as garrulous as an old soldier recalling his army days, only old tractors are not past history but very much a current event. Most of us ramparts people depend on them. I own [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10047870&amp;post=5631&amp;subd=thecontraryfarmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Ramparts People</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From GENE LOGSDON Introduction to The Contrary Farmer (1995) I remember clearly the day when I was twelve, hunting morel mushrooms with my father, when I informed him excitedly that I had decided to take my dog and my rifle and go deep into the wilderness to live. I would build a cabin on a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10047870&amp;post=5635&amp;subd=thecontraryfarmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sanctuary</title>
		<link>https://thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/sanctuary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mulligan Books &#38; Seeds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From GENE LOGSDON The breathtaking photo accompanying this blog post shows a grove of young black walnut trees growing above a lustrous carpet of wild hyacinths in late spring. But what the picture does not show makes it even more wildly beautiful. I would bet that very few readers can guess, in environmental or geographic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10047870&amp;post=5622&amp;subd=thecontraryfarmer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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