id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_cvyelndsi5evzf56ftjl3k6une Katharine V. Blake Modern Amish farming as ecological agriculture 1997.0 17 .pdf application/pdf 8635 994 70 Amish farming in St. Lawrence County, New York, embodied ecological agriculture in some respects but The high use of petroleum-based inputs may have reflected the newness of Amish settlement in St. Lawrence County, a lack of awareness of the ecological impacts of these substances, and non-Amish farming, it is obvious that there are several differences with respect to diversity, technology, use of petroleum, self-sufficiency, harmony with nature, and involveissues in farming, as well as energy and land use patterns in Amish and non-Amish agriculture. studied a single Amish farm in Holmes County, focusing on soil characteristics, in comparison with a single non-Amish farm that used no-till agricultural methods. Distribution of Amish and non-Amish farms in study region, St. Lawrence County, New One Amish farmer was uncertain about his crop rotation, because he had been farming in the region for only one year at the time of the study. ./cache/work_cvyelndsi5evzf56ftjl3k6une.pdf ./txt/work_cvyelndsi5evzf56ftjl3k6une.txt