PITCHFORK PULPIT
Book number 17 is ready for you to add to your library: PITCHFORK PULPIT. It's a collection of essays on self-reliance and profitable farmsteading with forays into agriculture policy.
Covering a broad range of subjects both practical and philosophical, this book preserves some of my best writing (I think) and is for sure the most eclectic book I've brought to the public.
It's just in time for Christmas and until then, available only at our Polyface gift shop. After the first of the year, we'll release it to the regular book trade through our friends at Chelsea Green publishing and distribution.
In the past I've kidded Wendell Berry and Allan Nation (founder of the Stockman Grass Farmermagazine) that they cheated when writing books because they'd just wait until they accumulated enough interesting essays, pick the headline of their favorite for the book title, and compile them in a book. I chided them that when I wrote a book, I started with a blank page and began writing. Not fair.
Well now I've cheated. I guess it's taken me a lot longer to accumulate enough independent essays to cheat than it did them. Or perhaps you need to get old enough to realize preserving a legacy of essays can only happen in a book; very few people have a good way of saving favorite magazine articles. If you want it preserved for the ages, bring out the glue and perfect binding and put them in a book. So I don't know whether I've left integrity or joined wisdom. Ha!
You wonderful regular readers know I'm always loathe to use these posts as an advertisement, but I don't know how easier (and cheaper) to get the word out about this latest contribution to the integrity farming and homesteading space than in this blog. So in shameless mercantilism and capitalistic greed, this is a come-on for you to add PITCHFORK PULPIT to your collection. Thank you.
Instead of responding to a question, click HERE to get it. In fact, go ahead and get a couple for friends who need to hear what you’ve been preaching.
