"Organic Farming," by Peter V. Fossel

How to raise, certify, and market organic crops and livestock.

"Organic Farming is the essential guide for beginning and maintaining your organic farm."

If you've ever dreamed about starting an organic farm, you'll want to read this book. Author Peter V. Fossel has farmed organically for more than 20 years in Tennessee and Massachusetts and currently sells the produce from his Swan River Farm at local markets. Organic Farming is his encouraging and passionate call to arms to all those dreamers who are ready to take the next step and actually do it. Start a farm. 

To farm organically, you'll have to build up the soil- Fossel explains why and how in Chapter 3. If you want to sell produce, you'll have to find customers-he tells you how in Chapter 12. In every chapter and at every step, Organic Farming gives you just the advice you need, as well as some personal insights and anecdotes from a life lived primarily on a working farm.