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Summary

An Introduction to Twenty-First Century HOE FARMING: an antidote to globalisation is a 133 pages (roughly 6x8 inches), spiral bound book by Gareth Lewis about human-scale, human-powered farming using a few hand tools: a spade, a fork, sticks, an axe, a billhook, and especially a hoe. It's a light book, not delving deeply into any particular topic but surveying the history of subsistence agriculture, the economics, and how to make it work in the modern world.

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You can get a sense of their editorial style from their newsletters:

Here is a link to Dec 2025

https://hoe-farming.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/subsistencegardener_dec25.pdf

And back issues can be found here (scroll down on the landing page)

https://hoe-farming.com/newsletter-2/
 
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