Author: Simon Fairlie

Over the course of his long life and career as a writer, farmer, and journalist, Gene Logsdon published more than two dozen books, both practical and philosophical, on all aspects of rural life and affairs. His nonfiction works include Gene Everlasting, A Sanctuary of Trees,  and Living at Nature’s Pace. He wrote a popular blog,  The Contrary Farmer,  as well as an award-winning column for the Carey, Ohio,  Progressor Times. Gene was also a contributor to Farming Magazine and The Draft Horse Journal. He lived and farmed in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, where he died in 2016, a few weeks after finishing his final book,  Letter to a Young Farmer.