George Washington: Pioneer Farmer (George Washington BookShelf)

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This volume provides a fresh historical center of attention on George Washington as a pioneer farmer actively engaged in a new approach to agriculture: one in line with a more scientific attitude toward crops, farm animals, and the land. As Alan and Donna Jean Fusonie examined his correspondence and diaries, the emerging profile of Washington was once of a tireless experimenter eager to share his results with visitors and with farmers in other parts of the country and in another country. In his correspondence Washington used the power of his pen to convey vital agricultural thoughts. He increasingly more expressed his concern concerning the ruinous agricultural practices of many of his fellow farmers. Washington’s complex shift to a more self-reliant and integrated system of agriculture proved him to be an informed, forward-thinking decision maker who focused at the long-term productivity and conservation of his land at Mount Vernon. The authors, also practicing farmers, are intrigued by the similarity between Washington’s outlook and that of increasingly more lately’s farmers who use more sustainable approaches.

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