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Sommario
Liability Statement
Cover & Inside Material Praise
Preamble
IntroductionThis Book's Format
About This Book
Small-Scale Profit Resilience
Chapter 1: A Story About a Horse The Horse and His Boy
The Origin of Two-Wheel Tractors
Honoring the Two-Wheel Tractor
The Italian Two-Wheel Renaissance
Chapter 2: Two-Wheel Tractor Essentials The Definitive Two-Wheel Tractor
Eleven Two-Wheel Tractor Benefits
The Types of Two-Wheel Tractors
Row Crop Tractor with High Clearance
Row Crop Tractor Features
Tractor Components: Form and Function
Powersafe Clutch and Transmission
Tractor Operation: Getting Started
Steps to Get Operating
Steps to Begin Implement Operation
A Bit of Tractor Safety
Chapter 3: Implements and Their UsesTypes of Implements
Selected Equipment Profiles
Chapter 4: Equipment Decision-MakingScale-Suitable Equipment
Scale Phases
Equipment Guilds and Operation Cycles
Guild Enterprise Production
Guild Enterprise Brainstorming Template
Budgeting for Tractors and Equipment
Chapter 5: Selected Enterprise Examples The Backyard Gardener (.25-5 APA)
Suburban Homesteader (1-3 APA)
Market Grower (1-3 APA)
Row Crop Farmer (3-6 APA)
Back-to-the-Lander (3-15 APA)
Groundskeeper and Landscaper (Various APA)
Grassland Farmer (8-13 APA)
Tree Nursery (3-6 APA)
Edible Ecosystem Management
Chapter 6: Permabed System for Two-Wheel TractorsPermabed System 101
Permabed Architecture
Permaplot Design
Permaplot Layout
Compost-a-Path Principles
Permabed Soil Design
Using Equipment for Crop Rotation Management
Chapter 7: Growing from Scratch 1. Clearing New Land (or Reclaiming)
2. Garden Plot Layout
3. Micro-Plowing a Field
4. Permabed Layout and Bed Building Options
5. Building Beds with a Power Ridger
6. Refining Your Rough Permabeds
7. Seasonal Bed Preparation Operations
8. Succession Planting and Crop Guild Design
9. Other Seasonal Management
Chapter 8: Tractor Maintenance and Care Tractor Maintenance Simplified
Essential Tools for Maintenance
Essential Maintenance Supplies
Maintenance Tips
Checking and Changing Honda Engine Oil
Two-Wheeling into the Future
Glossary of Common Terms and Jargon
Index
About the Author
About New Society Publishers
Info autore
Zach Loeks is an educator, grower, second-generation permaculture designer innovating and specializing in Edible Ecosystem Design. His passion is demonstrating how small actions - strategically linked - can create big change. He is director of the Ecosystem Solution Institute, where he consults widely with homes, farms, colleges, schools, and municipalities across North America and around the world. His purpose is to help people create more edible and diverse farms, gardens, and landscapes while enhancing food security, community well-being, and societal resilience. Zach manages an award-winning farm featuring diversified food forest products, heirloom garlic, and a hardy tree nursery. His innovations have earned him three provincial awards. He is the author of
The Edible Ecosystem Solution and
The Permaculture Market Garden. Zach splits his time between his rural farm in Ontario and a sister urban farm in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
