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Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
by Mildred Arms Kalish  Review “Using this book alone, one could reconstruct, with glorious exactness, a lost time and place. Mildred Kalish has a novelist's eye for detail and a beautiful understanding of what the gestures of daily life mean. A lovely, wise...
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Hit by a Farm: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Barn
by Catherine Friend 
Publisher Comments Farms have fences. People have boundaries. Mine began crumbling the day I knelt behind a male sheep, reached between his legs, and squeezed his testicles. This took place one blustery November day when I joined other shepherd-wannabees for a class on the...
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Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
by Mildred Armstrong Kalish Publisher Comments I tell of a time, a place, and a way of life long gone. For many years I have had the urge to describe that treasure trove, lest it vanish forever. So, partly in response to the basic human instinct to share feelings and experiences, and partly for the...
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Heirloom: Notes from an Accidental Tomato Farmer
by Tim Stark Publisher Comments Situated beautifully at the intersection of Michael Pollan, Ruth Reichl, and Barbara Kingsolver, Heirloom is an inspiring, elegiac, and gorgeously written memoir about rediscovering an older and still vital way of life. Fourteen years ago, Tim Stark was...
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Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch
by Dan O'brien Publisher Comments For twenty years Dan O'Brien struggled to make ends meet on his cattle ranch in South Dakota. But when a neighbor invited him to lend a hand at the annual buffalo roundup, O'Brien was inspired to convert his own ranch, the Broken Heart, to buffalo...
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How to Shovel Manure: And Other Life Lessons for the Country Woman
by Gwen Petersen Publisher Comments Dubbed the Erma Bombeck of the farmhouse, Petersen shares her hard-won wisdom on surviving real rural life through tales of her own hilarious successes and failures. This essential book is equal parts how-to advice, rural humor, and philosophy along with...
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Yamsi: A Year in the Life of a Wilderness Ranch (Northwest Reprints)
by Dayton Hyde Publisher Comments Hyde's exuberant record of a year on his cattle ranch, where hard work and hardships coexist with a dedication to the principles of conservation and sound ecology....
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The Rural Life
by Verlyn Klinkenborg Publisher Comments This is a collection of Klinkenborg's writings on the natural world and the changing seasons which appear frequently in a column entitled "The Rural Life" on the editorial page of the "New York Times."...
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Clearing Land: Legacies of the American Farm
by Jane Brox Publisher Comments Though few of us now live close to the soil, the world we inhabit has been sculpted by our long national saga of settlement. At the heart of our identity lies the notion of the family farm, as shaped by European history and reshaped by the vast...
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Sugaring: A Maple Syrup Memoir, with Instructions
by Susan Carol Hauser Publisher Comments SUGARING is a beautifully rendered narrative about the act of sugaring, with instructions and recipes....
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Pictures from the Farm: An Album of Family Farm Memories (Country Life)
by John O. Allen Publisher Comments Featuring fabulous photographs from the famous J. C. Allen & Son, Inc. archives, "Pictures from the Farm" is an unabashedly nostalgic memory book tribute to the farm and to rural life from the early 1900s to the late 1960s. Organized by theme, "Pictures...
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Home and Away: More Tales of a Heritage Farm
by Anny Scoones Publisher Comments In her best-selling first book, Home: Tales of a Heritage Farm (2005), Anny Scoones introduced readers to historic Glamorgan Farm. In Home and Away, Anny presents more stories about the joys and sorrows, excitements and mishaps, of living on the farm...
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Sylvia's Farm: The Journal of an Improbable Shepard
by Sylvia Jorrin Publisher Comments In the tradition of James Herriot, Sylvia Jorrín tells her story of unexpectedly becoming a shepherd in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains. When Sylvia Jorrín first moved to upstate New York, she had no intention of becoming a farmer...
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Fields That Dream
by Jenny Kurzweil Publisher Comments Fields That Dream explores the lives of refugees, immigrants, former chefs, insurance brokers, and union organizers who are now small-scale sustainable farmers. Each chapter of the book combines the story of a farmer who sells at a successful farmers...
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Clearing Land: Legacies of the American Farm
by Jane Brox Publisher Comments "A moving, graceful elegy for the American farm." --Larry Zuckerman, author of The Potato <BR>"Nonfiction literature of a high and lasting order . . . "Clearing Land," [Brox's] third book, parlays the resonantly detailed specifics of life on her...
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Eggs in the Coffee, Sheep in the Corn: My 17 Years as a Farmwife (Midwest Reflections)
by Marjorie My Douglas Publisher Comments Tears of frustration and loneliness more than once filled the eyes of Marjorie Myers Douglas as she valiantly coped with her new status as a farmwife. Life on a western Minnesota stock ranch in the years during and after World War II was, after all, a...
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Ordinary Days: Family Life in a Farmhouse
by Dorcas Smucker Publisher Comments Imagine raising six spirited kids on a grass farm. Today. That'll test any mama's strength. Dorcas Smucker and her brood live out their days in full view in this collection of musingspicking blueberries while watching for bears, hoping for angels driving...
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Growing Up on Maple Hill Farm: A New England Farm Life
by Jerry Stelmok Publisher Comments Evocative essays, illustrated with watercolors and family photographs, recall a childhood of work and wonder spent on a horse-powered farm in Maine....
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Of Time and Place: A Farm in Wisconsin
by Richard Quinney Publisher Comments The farm has belonged to Richard Quinney’s family for generations, since first being settled by his great-grandparents fleeing the potato famine in Ireland, and it is the place of his birth and early years. When the house...
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Women of the Harvest: Inspiring Stories of Contemporary Farmers
by Holly L Bollinger Publisher Comments “Today, women are the fastest growing group of people buying and operating small farms. While the number of American farms has dropped 14 percent in the last 25 years, the number of farms run by women has increased 86 percent! Like a tenacious new...
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