The Farm Life
Author: Elizabeth Spurr
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780823417773
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Preschoolers will have plenty of fun while learning about numbers, colors, and animals.
Author: Elizabeth Spurr
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780823417773
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Preschoolers will have plenty of fun while learning about numbers, colors, and animals.
Author: Richard Rhodes
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1997-11-28
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780803289659
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Describes the challenges and rewards faced by modern farms in the Midwest, and looks at the seasonal milestones of rural life
Author: A. G. Smith
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1990-02-01
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 0486261484
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Forty-three accurately rendered illustrations depict detailed scenes of kitchen chores (churning butter, preparing foods); seasonal occupations (shearing sheep, mowing hay, "harvesting" and "sugaring off" maple syrup); plowing, planting, other activities. Fact-filled captions. Published in association with Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village.
Author: Gestalten
Publisher: Gestalten
Published: 2018-02-15
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9783899559187
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Fresh eggs. Grandmother's pickling jars. Backyard orchards Meet new farmers, learn how they grow food, and join the movement preparing their favorite dishes with farm fresh ingredients.
Author: Lowry Nelson
Publisher:
Published: 1954
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13:
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Author: Sarah Frey
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2021-10-05
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0593129415
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“A gutsy success story” (The New York Times Book Review) about one tenacious woman’s journey to escape rural poverty and create a billion-dollar farming business—without ever leaving the land she loves The youngest of her parents’ combined twenty-one children, Sarah Frey grew up on a struggling farm in southern Illinois, often having to grow, catch, or hunt her own dinner alongside her brothers. She spent much of her early childhood dreaming of running away to the big city—or really anywhere with central heating. At fifteen, she moved out of her family home and started her own fresh produce delivery business with nothing more than an old pickup truck. Two years later, when the family farm faced inevitable foreclosure, Frey gave up on her dreams of escape, took over the farm, and created her own produce company. Refusing to play by traditional rules, at seventeen she began talking her way into suit-filled boardrooms, making deals with the nation’s largest retailers. Her early negotiations became so legendary that Harvard Business School published some of her deals as case studies, which have turned out to be favorites among its students. Today, her family-operated company, Frey Farms, has become one of America’s largest fresh produce growers and shippers, with farmland spread across seven states. Thanks to the millions of melons and pumpkins she sells annually, Frey has been dubbed “America’s Pumpkin Queen” by the national press. The Growing Season tells the inspiring story of how a scrappy rural childhood gave Frey the grit and resiliency to take risks that paid off in unexpected ways. Rather than leaving her community, she found adventure and opportunity in one of the most forgotten parts of our country. With fearlessness and creativity, she literally dug her destiny out of the dirt.
Author: Lizann Flatt
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780778750710
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Describes daily life in the farming community of Monticello, Wisconsin.
Author: Ted Genoways
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2017-09-19
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0393292584
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Winner of the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize 2019 selection for the One Book One Nebraska and All Iowa state reading programs "Genoways gives the reader a kitchen-table view of the vagaries, complexities, and frustrations of modern farming…Insightful and empathetic." —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel The family farm lies at the heart of our national identity, and yet its future is in peril. Rick Hammond grew up on a farm, and for forty years he has raised cattle and crops on his wife’s fifth-generation homestead in Nebraska, in hopes of passing it on to their four children. But as the handoff nears, their family farm—and their entire way of life—are under siege on many fronts, from shifting trade policies, to encroaching pipelines, to climate change. Following the Hammonds from harvest to harvest, Ted Genoways explores the rapidly changing world of small, traditional farming operations. He creates a vivid, nuanced portrait of a radical new landscape and one family’s fight to preserve their legacy and the life they love.
Author: Marie Mutsuki Mockett
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2020-04-07
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 1644451166
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An epic story of the American wheat harvest, the politics of food, and the culture of the Great Plains For over one hundred years, the Mockett family has owned a seven-thousand-acre wheat farm in the panhandle of Nebraska, where Marie Mutsuki Mockett’s father was raised. Mockett, who grew up in bohemian Carmel, California, with her father and her Japanese mother, knew little about farming when she inherited this land. Her father had all but forsworn it. In American Harvest, Mockett accompanies a group of evangelical Christian wheat harvesters through the heartland at the invitation of Eric Wolgemuth, the conservative farmer who has cut her family’s fields for decades. As Mockett follows Wolgemuth’s crew on the trail of ripening wheat from Texas to Idaho, they contemplate what Wolgemuth refers to as “the divide,” inadvertently peeling back layers of the American story to expose its contradictions and unhealed wounds. She joins the crew in the fields, attends church, and struggles to adapt to the rhythms of rural life, all the while continually reminded of her own status as a person who signals “not white,” but who people she encounters can’t quite categorize. American Harvest is an extraordinary evocation of the land and a thoughtful exploration of ingrained beliefs, from evangelical skepticism of evolution to cosmopolitan assumptions about food production and farming. With exquisite lyricism and humanity, this astonishing book attempts to reconcile competing versions of our national story.