Holy Shit!

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Managing Manure to Save Elliott Bent
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Gene Logsdon
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5 1/2 x 7 1/2 • 272 pages
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Pub Date: September 30th, 2010

“ Gene Logsdon, in his naughty and inimical style, has captured the essence of soil building,
pathogen control, food ecology and farm economics by explaining the elegantly simple symbiosis
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between manure and carbon. What a great addition to the eco-food and farming movement.
—Joel Salatin, Author of You Can Farm and The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer

Finally – here is the manifesto honoring one of the modern world’s greatest resources – and it’s right
under our noses. In Holy Shit
Shit, contrary farmer and agricultural legend Gene Logsdon is back with the
inside story of manure, and argues that this under-utilized resource should be regarded with the rever-
ence it deserves.
Why should you read a book about something you can’t discuss around the dinner table? Just as with
food production, we’ve lost an important connection to the biological lifecycle: the value of waste.
As the cost of synthesized fertilizer continues to skyrocket, and the population continues climbing, we
must go back to basics and prioritize the act of enriching our soil. Our future depends on it. In this ode
to excrement, Logsdon argues with trademark wit that we need to get over our fear of feces to turn this
unassuming commodity into brown gold.
Both scientifically sound and entertaining to read, Holy Shit is a fresh and entertaining look at the earthy,
but crucial subject - a small gem destined to become an agricultural classic alongside Wendell Berry,
Michael Pollan and Eliot Coleman.

“ Gene Logsdon is one of only three people I know who are able to make a living exclusively out of
writing what should be common sense. Here he has done it again.
—Wes Jackson, President of The Land Institute
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Gene Logsdon farms in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. He is one of the clearest and most original voices
of rural America. He has published more than two dozen books; his Chelsea Green books include
Small-Scale Grain Raising (Second Edition), Living at Nature’s Pace, The Contrary Farmer’s Invitation
to Gardening, Good Spirits, and The Contrary Farmer. He writes a popular blog at OrganicToBe.org,
is a regular contributor to Farming magazine and The Draft Horse Journal, and writes an award-
winning weekly column in the Carey, Ohio Progressor Times.

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