“The organic homestead means something deeper than either the nobility of work or the pleasantness of leisure. What it must provide — if the homestead is to have true success — is a shrine to tranquility, an island of calm sanity to which you can retreat each day from the hectic outside world.”Gene Logsdon is uniquely qualified to write about homesteading — his heart has never been far from the land. He was born and raised on his family’s farm, and as an adult he established a two-acre homestead...