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The Two-Wheel Tractor Handbook - by Zach Loeks (Paperback)

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Highlights

  • Small but mighty -- a comprehensive guide to the use of two-wheel tractors for highly productive gardens, landscapes, and farms TWO-WHEEL TRACTORS are multifunctional, economical, practical, maneuverable, portable, and low impact.
  • About the Author: Zach Loeks is an educator, grower, second-generation permaculture designer innovating and specializing in Edible Ecosystem Design.
  • 240 Pages
  • Technology, Agriculture

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About the Book



The Two-Wheel Tractor Handbook shows small-scale growers how to leverage this versatile, affordable, yet under-utilized tool to maximize the productivity and profitability of their enterprises. Required reading for urban farmers, suburban gardeners, rural homesteaders, orchardists, landscapers, and market gardeners.



Book Synopsis



Small but mighty -- a comprehensive guide to the use of two-wheel tractors for highly productive gardens, landscapes, and farms

TWO-WHEEL TRACTORS are multifunctional, economical, practical, maneuverable, portable, and low impact. Yet choosing the equipment is only half of it; the other half is integrating the right machine and implements into your land-based enterprise and coupling it with innovative high-efficiency techniques. Coverage includes:

  • Why you need a two-wheel tractor
  • Two-wheel tractor essentials including tractor implement options and functions
  • Equipment decision-making to suit your scale, context, enterprises, and budget
  • Safety equipment, operation, and basic maintenance
  • Innovative use strategies including micro-plowing, making "Permabeds," in situ mulching, the "Compost-a-path Method," crop guilds, scaling up, and diversified crop management
  • How to start from scratch, clearing new land, scaling up your enterprises, and more
  • Case studies and rich examples from suburban landscaping to commercial market gardens from Europe and North America
  • "Pro tips," "design boxes," and other sidebars for rapidly elevating your skills.

The Two-Wheel Tractor Handbook shows small-scale growers how to leverage walk-behind tractors to maximize the productivity and profitability of their enterprises. This full-color, highly illustrated guide is a must-have tool for urban farmers, suburban gardeners, rural homesteaders, orchardists, landscapers, and market gardeners looking to boost production.



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Small but mighty -- a comprehensive guide to the use of two-wheel tractors for highly productive gardens, landscapes, and farms

This book is truly unique, full of tips, hints, and tidbits even for someone like me who's been farming with such tractors for over 20 years.
-- Jean-Martin Fortier, author, The Market Gardener

Jam-packed with great information. This book is going to save serious growers a lot of time tinkering around.
-- Curtis Stone, author, The Urban Farmer

TWO-WHEEL TRACTORS are multifunctional, economical, practical, maneuverable, portable, and low impact. Yet choosing the equipment is only half of it; the other half is integrating the right machine and implements into your land-based enterprise and coupling it with innovative high-efficiency techniques. Coverage includes:

  • Why you need a two-wheel tractor
  • Two-wheel tractor essentials including tractor implement options and functions
  • Equipment decision-making to suit your scale, context, enterprises, and budget
  • Safety equipment, operation, and basic maintenance
  • Innovative use strategies including micro-plowing, making "Permabeds," in situ mulching, the "Compost-a-path Method," crop guilds, scaling up, and diversified crop management
  • How to start from scratch, clearing new land, scaling up your enterprises, and more
  • Case studies and rich examples from suburban landscaping to commercial market gardens from Europe and North America
  • "Pro tips," "design boxes," and other sidebars for rapidly elevating your skills.

The Two-Wheel Tractor Handbook shows small-scale growers how to leverage walk-behind tractors to maximize the productivity and profitability of their enterprises. This full-color, highly illustrated guide is a must-have tool for urban farmers, suburban gardeners, rural homesteaders, orchardists, landscapers, and market gardeners looking to boost production.

A detailed, beautiful, and much-needed must-have for anyone serious about using small machines to manage their farm.
-- Matt Powers, author, Regenerative Soil

This very practical manual will help us really understand our two-wheel tractors and get the best out of them.
-- Pam Dawling, author, The Year-Round Hoophouse and Sustainable Market Farming

ZACH LOEKS is an educator, grower, permaculture designer, and edible ecosystem innovator. Director of the Ecosystem Solution Institute, he helps homes, farms, schools, and municipalities create more edible and diverse landscapes. He is the author of The Edible Ecosystem Solution and The Permaculture Market Garden. Zach lives on his farm in Ontario.



Review Quotes




"As much as I favor managing your garden with hand tools, if you scale up to marketing you may need some help. In addition to serving as an operator's manual for two-wheel tractors, this book helps you define your goals for your enterprise and decide just what equipment you may need. A good resource to have."
--Cindy Conner, author of Grow a Sustainable Diet and Homegrown Flax and Cotton

"Jam packed with great information. This book is going to save serious growers a lot of time tinkering around."
--Curtis Stone, author of The Urban Farmer

"Zach Loeks' The Two-Wheel Tractor Handbook is a detailed, beautiful, & much-needed must-have for every market gardener's library - and for anyone serious about using small machines to manage their farm."
-- Matt Powers, author of Regenerative Soil

"This book is essential to anyone who owns a BCS tractor or who is exploring the purchase of one. I use a BCS in the garden, forest and the snow and found a ton of insights in Zach's book. The review of various BCS implements, different uses for these machines and maintenance tips is invaluable to the novice and intermediate user alike. This book should be included as a how-to manual with every BCS tractor sold."
--- Rob Avis, Verge Permaculture, author of Essential Rainwater Harvesting

"Easily the most comprehensive guide to two-wheel tractors ever written. Get more out of your two-wheel tractor with all the tips and tricks while saving money by doing the maintenance yourself."
--- Diego Footer, founder of Paperpot Co.

"This very practical manual will help us really understand our two-wheel tractors and get the best out of them while giving them our best. Even those in favor of minimizing tilling understand that some circumstances call for tilling, so let's do it well. Mindful, good use of machinery is important!"
-- Pam Dawling, teacher, speaker and author of Sustainable Market Farming and The Year-Round Hoophouse

"The scale of farming is crucial in designing farm systems and planning for labor, investments, profits, and machinery. This book discusses scale and choosing a family of machinery that work together and allow a farm to grow over time in a comprehensive and innovative way that I have not seen anywhere else."
-- Sam Oschwald Tilton, Direct Market Vegetable Specialist, author of numerous articles and resources on sustainable agriculture, vegetable farming mechanization specialist

"When growing vegetables for market, one of the most important lessons is that bigger is not better. It's quite the contrary; even 1 acre of cultivated land can allow a grower to make a living in farming. Another lesson is to size the equipment properly, which is why two-wheel tractors have become so popular in recent years. In this fantastic book, you'll learn everything you need to know about this appropriate technology. This book is truly unique, full of tips, hints and tidbits even for someone like me who's been farming with such tractors for over 20 years."
-- Jean-Martin Fortier, author The Market Gardener




About the Author



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.

Dimensions (Overall): 8.9 Inches (H) x 7.5 Inches (W) x .8 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.25 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 240
Genre: Technology
Sub-Genre: Agriculture
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Format: Paperback
Author: Zach Loeks
Language: English
Street Date: April 4, 2023
TCIN: 86722843
UPC: 9780865719842
Item Number (DPCI): 247-39-2844
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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