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The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love by Kristin Kimball Publisher Comments "This book is the story of the two love affairs that interrupted the trajectory of my life: one with farming—that dirty, concupiscent art—and the other with a complicated and exasperating farmer." Single, thirtysomething, working as a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Coop: A Family, a Farm, and the Pursuit of One Good Egg (P.S.) by Michael Perry Staff Pick Coop is perfect for anyone dreaming of a "simple" life in the country — and for those already living it. Perry is a brilliant storyteller, and this is a funny and poignant account of his unorthodox childhood and his current quest for some cred as a... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities by Will Allen Publisher Comments A pioneering urban farmer and MacArthur “Genius Award” winner points the way to building a new food system that can feed—and heal—broken communities. The son of a sharecropper, Will Allen had no intention of ever becoming a farmer... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, a Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese by Brad Kessler Publisher Comments Goat Song is the story of a year in the life of a couple who abandoned their one-bedroom apartment in New York City to live on seventy-five acres in Vermont and raise Nubian goats. In poetic, reverent detail, Brad Kessler explores our ancient... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer by Joel Salatin Publisher Comments Foodies and environmentally minded folks often struggle to understand and articulate the fundamental differences between the farming and food systems they endorse and those promoted by Monsanto and friends. With visceral stories and humor from Salatin's... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Wisdom of the Radish: And Other Lessons Learned on a Small Farm by Lynda Hopkins Publisher Comments Who knew that the hot career choice for recent college grads would be farming? Lynda Hopkins, a farmer's girlfriend, took her master's degree in environmental science communication and planted kale, radishes, and tomatoes on a small farm in Northern... (read more) Your price: $23.95 New - Hardcover
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The Blueberry Years: A Memoir of Farm and Family by Jim Minick Publisher Comments “A truly inspiring story, in gorgeous prose, about one familys journey into blueberry farming. Delicious reading.” —Naomi Wolf, author of The End of America The Blueberry Years is a mouth-watering and delightful memoir based... (read more) Your price: $16.99 New - Trade Paper
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Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression by Mildred Armstrong Kalish Staff Pick Those of us who feel like we're "just getting by" will be both humbled and inspired by Kalish's tales of life on an Iowa farm during the Great Depression. Her humorous and heart-warming depiction of a childhood spent working the land and, in doing so... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer by Novella Carpenter Staff Pick If you've ever dabbled in community gardening or thought to yourself, "I could raise chickens!" then Farm City is a must read. Novella Carpenter brings heart and humor to her story of inner-city gardening.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Growing a Farmer: How I Learned to Live off the Land by Kurt Timmermeister Staff Pick Seattle chef Kurt Timmermeister is living the dream (my dream, anyway). In this charming memoir he chronicles, missteps and all, how he turned four overgrown acres on Vashon Island into a bona fide farm. A practical and honest account from a self-made... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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City Farmer: Adventures in Urban Food Growing by Lorraine Johnson Synopsis City Farmer celebrates the new ways that urban dwellers across North America are reimagining cities as places of food production. From homeowners planting their front yards with vegetables to guerilla gardeners scattering seeds in neglected urban corners,... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness by Lisa M. Hamilton Synopsis A century of industrialization has left the food system riddled with problems, yet for solutions people look to nutritionists and government agencies, scientists and chefs. Hamilton asks: Why not look to the people who grow the food?... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer by Novella Carpenter Publisher Comments Urban and rural collide in this wry, inspiring memoir of a woman who turned a vacant lot in downtown Oakland into a thriving farm. Novella Carpenter loves cities — the culture, the crowds, the energy. At the same time, she can't shake the fact... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Rurally Screwed: My Life Off the Grid with the Cowboy I Love by Jessie Knadler Publisher Comments Jessie Knadler was a New York City girl, through and through. An editor for a splashy women's magazine, she splurged on Miu Miu, partied hard, lived for Kundalini yoga, and dated a man-boy whose complexion was creamier than her own. Circling the drain... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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The Quarter-Acre Farm: How I Kept the Patio, Lost the Lawn, and Fed My Family for a Year by Spring Warren Synopsis When Spring Warren told her husband and two teenage boys that she wanted to grow 75 percent of all the food they consumed for one year—and that she wanted to do it in their yard—they told her she was crazy. She did it anyway. The Quarter-Acre... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Bioshelter Market Garden: A Permaculture Farm by Darrell Frey Publisher Comments To ensure food security and restore the health of the planet, we need to move beyond industrial agriculture and return to the practice of small-scale, local farming. Bioshelter Market Garden: A Permaculture Farm describes the creation of a sustainable... (read more) Your price: $34.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love by Kristin Kimball Publisher Comments "This book is the story of the two love affairs that interrupted the trajectory of my life: one with farming—that dirty, concupiscent art—and the other with a complicated and exasperating farmer." Single, thirtysomething, working as a... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression by Mildred Armstrong Kalish Staff Pick Those of us who feel like we're "just getting by" will be both humbled and inspired by Kalish's tales of life on an Iowa farm during the Great Depression. Her humorous and heart-warming depiction of a childhood spent working the land and, in doing so... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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This Common Ground: Seasons on an Organic Farm by Scott Chaskey Publisher Comments In the tradition of Michael Pollan, Joan Gussow, and Verlyn Klinkenborg?s The Rural Life, This Common Ground is an inspirational evocation of a life lived close to the earth, written by the head farmer at one of the country?s first community-supported... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Sylvia's Farm by Sylvia Jorrin Publisher Comments Describes one woman's odyssey from a New England homeowner with a fear of animals to unlikely farmer with a flock of sheep, goats, cows, chickens, geese, cats, dog, and donkey and offers entertaining anecdotes and vignettes of her life on a farm, the... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $8.65 Google eBooks - Electronic
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