Ancient Agriculture: Roots and Application of Sustainable Farming

About this book

The Art of Agriculture is the first English edition of Obra de Agricultura by Gabriel Alonso de Herrera an agriculture instruction manual originally written in Granada Spain in 1513 and published there in 1539. Herrera widely considered the Father of Modern Spanish Agriculture wrote this treatise nearly five centuries ago thoughtfully recounting traditional farming techniques of the Moors before their expulsion from Spain the Spanish colonizers in the early 1600s and the rural Indo-Hispano bioregion spanning northern New Mexico and southern Colorado.