Farmers and Ranchers
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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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The $64 Tomato: How One Man Nearly Lost His Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis in the Quest for the Perfect Ga
by William Alexander Publisher Comments Bill Alexander had no idea that his simple dream of having a vegetable garden and small orchard in his backyard would lead him into life-and-death battles with groundhogs, webworms, weeds, and weather; midnight expeditions in the dead of winter to dig up...
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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 $64 Tomato
by William Alexander Publisher Comments William Alexander had a simple dream of having a vegetable garden and small orchard in his backyard. It was a dream that would lead to life-and-death battles with groundhogs, webworms, and weeds; midnight expeditions in the dead of winter to dig up fresh...
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Where Rivers Change Direction
by Mark Spragg
Publisher Comments The acclaimed new voice of the heartland, Mark Spragg has written a poetic and uncompromising memoir of his boyhood spent on the oldest dude ranch in Wyoming....
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Last Cow Doctor
by John Mccormack Publisher Comments Last Cow Doctor John McCormack Tens of thousands of readers have fallen in love with Dr. John McCormack's series of books about the farmers, cattlemen, and moonshiners of Choctaw County, Alabama. From late-night cow deliveries to visits to the town...
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Rural Wisdom: The Times When Life Has Really Spun Our Wheels
by Larry Ernster Publisher Comments In this delightful memoir of short stories and essays, the author uses the rural wisdom he gained in his youth to explain time, forgiveness, and the crush of change; and applies it the challenge of life in the big city. Here, there is history on a...
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Farmworkers Daughter: Growing Up Mexican in California
by Rose Castillo Guilbault Publisher Comments A coming-of-age memoir told through the often unheard voice of a Mexican immigrant girl. Farmworker's Daughter presents an intimate, inspiring view of the immigrant experience from a distinctly female and bicultural perspective....
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Running for the Hills: Growing Up on My Mother's Sheep Farm in Wales
by Horatio Clare Publisher Comments Before Horatio Clare was born, his parents fell in love with a place -- a remote sheep farm in Wales, physically and in every other way far from the lives they were forging as young professionals in London. The farm was high up a mountain, nearly...
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Every Farm Tells a Story: A Tale of Family Farm Values
by Jerold W. Apps Publisher Comments A memoir that offers a warm-hearted, affirming statement on family farming and American principles. Jerry Apps looks at family farm values as told through his mother's own farm account books containing costs of living on the farm during and after WWII...
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From Dawn to Dusk: Memoirs of an Amish/Mennonite Farm Boy
by Will Troyer Publisher Comments A nostalgic look at farm life during the Depression. The Amish family lives a modest lifestyle until they become Mennonites and acquire electricity and a car. Threshing, butchering, making apple butter, and farming with horses are fond memories of the...
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Wheat and Woman
by Georgina Binnie-clark Book News Annotation Binnie-Clark (1871-1955) bought a 320-acre farm in Saskatchewan in 1906, when she was 33 years old. At the time she was a journalist with no knowledge of agriculture and no particular inclination to become a farmer. Her account of her first three...
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It Takes a Village Idiot: A Memoir of Life After the City
by Jim Mullen Publisher Comments Finalist for the 2001 Thurber Prize for American Humor a Rocky Mountain News (Denver) Best Book of the Year Millions of people dream of abandoning the city routine for a simple country life. Jim Mullen was not one of them. He loved his Manhattan...
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Bob and Helen Kleberg of King Ranch
by Helen Kleberg Groves Publisher Comments Inviting the reader to a personal glimpse of life on this much-storied ranch, this intimate and compelling book chronicles not only the history of the ranch, but also the life of Bob and Helen Kleberg, the first family of cattle ranching. From the...
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Promise Land: A Farmer Remembers
by Dori Sanders Publisher Comments This monograph of a speech made by Sanders at the Southern Foodways Alliance chronicles her family's triumphs and struggles as black farmers in the South....
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Four Seasons in Five Senses: Things Worth Savoring
by David Mas Masumoto Publisher Comments Rushing from one thing to another, readers may lose sight of the art of living--which for California farmer Masumoto is also the art of farming....
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Beeing: Life, Motherhood, and 180,000 Honeybees
by Rosanne Dary Thomas Publisher Comments A warm and engaging memoir of beekeeping....
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Friends on the Farm
by Ruth I. Ufkes Publisher Comments Friends on the Farm is a must-read for animal lovers. Growing up on her family's farm in Illinois with as many animals as people, Ruth I. Ufkes learned the two are not so different. In a town of only 4,000 people, she learned many lessons by observing...
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Western Frontier Library #67: A Lady's Ranch Life in Montana
by Isabel F Randall Publisher Comments "A faithful and unvarnished Record of a Settler's Life" is how Isabel Randall described her letters when they were first published in 1887. Many foreign travelers published accounts of their visits to the American West, but Randall was one of the few...
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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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