Shopping Cart

We want to direct you to the right website. Please tell us where you live.

(This is a one-time message unless you reset your location.)

Available in Print and Digital (eBook) formats.
Choose the format you need.

Paperback
$44.99 CAD
PDF
$44.99 $29.25 CAD
EPUB
$44.99 $29.25 CAD
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Pub. Date: 2023-04-04
ISBN: 9780865719842
Format: Paperback - 240 pages
Size: 7.5" x 9" (w x h)
BISAC: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / Sustainable Agriculture

The Two-Wheel Tractor Handbook

Small-Scale Equipment and Innovative Techniques for Boosting Productivity

More affordable than four-wheel tractors and infinitely more versatile than single- purpose power equipment such as rototillers, two-wheel tractors are an ideal solution for an astonishing array of garden, landscaping, and agricultural applications.

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, compost-a-path design, 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 to North America.
  • "Pro-tips" and 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.

About the Author

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.



Homestead Cows

The Complete Guide to Raising Healthy, Happy Cattle

by Callene Rapp and Eric Rapp


The Scything Handbook

Learn How to Cut Grass, Mow Meadows and Harvest Grain with a Scythe

by Ian Miller



The Permaculture Market Garden

A visual guide to a profitable whole-systems farm business

by Zach Loeks


Uprisings

A Hands-On Guide to the Community Grain Revolution

by Sarah Simpson and Heather McLeod