Small Farms Are Real Farms author_Mark Shepard Technically precise yet written in

Technically precise yet written in friendly language

Maynard Murray was a medical doctor who researched the crucial importance of minerals — especially trace elements — to plants and animals

Using case studies and practical examples from both dairy and beef operations

and let the animals be your labor force

Small Farms Are Real Farms author_Mark Shepard Technically precise yet written inSince the middle of the last century, American farm policy has taken the nation into the dead end of industrial farm production and food distribution. Farming, at its core a biological process, has been transformed into an industrial process, thus demolishing the economic and cultural values upon which the nation was founded. Along the way, small farms have been ridiculed and dismissed as inconsequential but now the seeds of a rural renaissance are