{"product_id":"the-organic-grain-grower-isbn-9781645022015","title":"The Organic Grain Grower","description":"\u003cb\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Organic Grain Grower\u003c\/i\u003e is the best resource we’ve seen for small-scale grain growers everywhere. . . . [Lazor’s] passion comes alive in this fine guidebook’s depth of detail.”—\u003ci\u003eMother Earth News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe ultimate guide to growing organic grains on a small and ecological scale \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Organic Grain Grower \u003c\/i\u003eis invaluable for both home-scale and commercial producers interested in expanding their resiliency and crop diversity through growing their own grains. Longtime farmer and organic pioneer Jack Lazor covers how to grow and store wheat, barley, oats, corn, dry beans, soybeans, pulse crops, oilseeds, grasses, nutrient-dense forages, and lesser-known cereals. In addition to detailed cultivation and processing information, Lazor argues the importance of integrating grains on the organic farm (not to mention for the local-food system) for reasons of biodiversity and whole farm management. Including extensive information on:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe history of grain growing and consumption in North America\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe twenty-first century and the birth of the local-food movement\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConsidering your farm’s scale and climate\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnderstanding soil fertility and structure\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlanting your crop (including spring vs. fall cereals and preparing your soil)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe growing and ripening process (reproductive, milk, hard-and-soft dough stages)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe grain harvest\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreparing grain for sale, storage, or end use (drying, cleaning seed, grain handling)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeed breeding and saving\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMachinery, infrastructure, and processing (both home-scale tools and larger farm equipment)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGrinding grains for livestock rations (including how to put together a ration based on protein content) and sample rations for dairy cows, pigs, and chickens\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProcessing grains for human consumption\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdditional resources and information for new grain farmers, and more…\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeginners will learn how to grow enough wheat for a year’s supply of bread flour for their homestead, and farmers will learn how to become part of a grain co-op, working alongside artisan bakers and mills. Never before has there been a guide to growing organic grains applicable both for the home-scale and professional farming scale.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis will be a classic for decades to come and a crucial addition to any farmer’s, homesteader’s, gardener’s, agronomist’s, or seed-saver’s library.\u003c\/b\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Organic Grain Grower\u003c\/i\u003e is the best resource we’ve seen for small-scale grain growers everywhere. The book covers necessary equipment and cultivation techniques for many types of crops: corn, wheat, barley, oats, rye, spelt and triticale, buckwheat, soy, dry beans, and oilseeds. Lazor describes himself as 'a grain-processing nut,' and his passion comes alive in this fine guidebook’s depth of detail.\"—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMother Earth News\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Jack Lazor writes about grain growing with passion and experience. With this wealth of background and insight, readers will want to do it themselves, and with the lode of detailed information Jack provides, they will be able to do so. Although his focus is on medium-scale commercial production, many of the tips he shares are applicable to the backyard grain-grower as well.\"\u003cb\u003e—Will Bonsall, Khadighar Farm; director, Scatterseed Project\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Another outstanding offering from Chelsea Green Publishing, Lazor’s guide will doubtless plant the seeds of inspiration among beginners and old hands alike as they tackle the complexities of grain growing and organic agriculture, and will do its part to propagate more general interest in the subject.\"—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eForeWord Reviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Organic Grain Grower\u003c\/i\u003e is quite possibly the most complete and extensive text ever written on grain production in the Northeast. Jack Lazor’s deep passion and knowledge creates an astounding story, and he shares his wisdom and experience generously. If you have ever wanted to grow grain, this is a book to own and cherish.”\u003cb\u003e—Dr. Heather Darby, University of Vermont Extension Agronomist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Jack writes from the top of a mountain—the mountain of his life. His long years of experience are longer than his very beard, and the wisdom and distillation of his farming life are written here with clarity and graceful articulation. As he says in the book, ‘people are hungry for meaning as well as food.’ In this classic book, Jack provides not only the meaning, but also the methods required to succeed as a small-scale grower of organic grains.\"\u003cb\u003e—Jeffrey Hamelman, director, King Arthur Flour Bakery, and author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBread: A Baker’s Book of Techniques and Recipes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Given our industrial agriculture, most of us assume that grain can only be grown in huge monocultures devoted to producing as much as possible, unmindful of the quality. But in \u003ci\u003eThe Organic Grain Grower\u003c\/i\u003e, Jack Lazor provides us with a practical and attractive alternative. As a farmer he has demonstrated that one can provide an emerging market with a diversity of superior quality grains, grown on a small scale, using heirloom varieties and modest investment. This book is (as Eliot Coleman puts it) “like acquiring hundreds of years of knowledge in one book.”\u003cb\u003e—Frederick Kirschenmann, author of C\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eultivating an Ecological Conscience\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I believe I can safely say, without losing any money, that if you know of one fact truly necessary to growing grains organically in the United States that is not in this book, I'll pay you five bucks out of my own pocket. Plus there's a whole bunch of stuff about how to process and use grains in the barn or on the table that I have not found all in one place before.”\u003cb\u003e—Gene Logsdon, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSmall-Scale Grain Growing\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eJack Lazor\u003c\/b\u003e was co-owner of Butterworks Farm in Westfield, VT, with his wife, Anne, and cofounder of the Northern Grain Grower’s Association. 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