Feb 24, 2015

The Small Farm Plan By Booker T. Whatley

By Mother Earth News editors / motherearthnews.com
The Small Farm Plan By Booker T. Whatley

Raised on a family farm in Annislon, Ala., Booker received his B.S. in agriculture from Alabama A & M and a Ph.D. in horticulture from Rutgers University. 

During the Korean War, he operated a 55-acre hydroponic farm in Japan. (The water-grown crops were needed to feed American troops as the soldiers often contracted amoebic dysentery if forced to eat local produce raised in ground fertilized with "night soil," or human waste.).  Dr. Whatley has also originated 5 sweet potato and 15 muscadine grape varieties, written more than 40 scientific papers, done research in biomass fuel production, been elected a fellow of the American Society for Horticultural Science, and been honored by the Alabama State Legislature. 

This article was from the May/June 1982 edition of MOTHER EARTH NEWS.

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