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Posts Tagged ‘Gene Logsdon’

Whole Corn Kernels

Was revisiting Gene Logsdon’s Small-Scale Grain Raising over lunch yesterday.  We grew field corn this year – not much, just a first attempt to help keep the feed bill down, but y’know, enough to fill the (long) bed of a 1951 L-120 International Harvester pickup truck.  I keep wanting to grind the corn, but Gene’s book reminds me there is no need.  Especially if your chickens have crops (ours do!) and access to sand/dirt/grit (again, yes!).  Indeed, they gobble up those whole kernels, and the eggs keep coming.

Although I still want one of these.  (My mom lent us this, and it works for small cobs, but gets wedged on the larger ones.)

Gene Logsdon’s Bleeping New Book

From the moment I met him at a fancy author dinner and we bonded over the fact that we had both been wrassling sheep (for agricultural – not entertainment – reasons) less that 24 hours previous, I have felt an affinity for Gene Logsdon.  Just the other night in response to a question about raising chickens and pigs I recommended his All Flesh is Grass, which I re-read every year.  And the fact that we are actually going to be able to feed our chickens from our own fields over the coming winter is a direct result of many sessions spent dog-earing Gene’s Small-Scale Grain Raising.

At this point, I think of Gene as a friend, although I would never treat him with the informality of a “pal,” because where I come from, one always reserves a measure of deference for wise elders.

When I recommend Gene’s books, I often refer to his plainspoken outspokenness…two qualities I tend to admire because neither comes naturally to me.  Gene tends to just lay it right out there.  Which brings us to the whole point of this post.

Gene has a new book out.  It’s doing well.  Getting good reviews, and the interviewers are calling.  But no one seems to want to mention the actual title of the book…