The Two-Wheel Tractor Handbook

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