The Last of the Hill Farms

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Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9781567926057
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (26 download)

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Book Synopsis The Last of the Hill Farms by : Richard Brown

Download or read book The Last of the Hill Farms written by Richard Brown and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1968 the photographer Richard Brown fulfilled a romantic childhood dream when he moved to the Northeast Kingdom, a remote corner of Vermont just barely entering the twentieth century. There he encountered a way of life that was fast disappearing, a land of sheep, cattle, work horses, wood-burning stoves, and small family-run farms far removed from the industrial Northeast. Determined to record it before it disappeared, he saw a pastoral vision where, "for the briefest interval, a window opened and the spirit of Vermont's past--granite hills cleared and formed, hard lives lived and lost, struggle and endurance, a harsh land made starkly beautiful by nature and man--was made palpable." He saw the land and also a people whose "endless hours of backbreaking, monotonous work were spent with a quiet ferocity" and who believed their "age-old labors were a struggle waged against time itself - labors that might just hold modernity at bay." And Brown did record it, with an 8 x 10″ large plate view camera. Not only the hauntingly beautiful landscape but also the people who stayed and worked the stubborn hills and "did so with great but fierce attachment." This is a great ode to an America that has passed before our eyes almost without comment or notice. It is a valiant, indeed a brilliant, effort to make the past tangible, to bring it back to life.

The Year at Maple Hill Farm

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Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780613901987
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis The Year at Maple Hill Farm by : Alice Provensen

Download or read book The Year at Maple Hill Farm written by Alice Provensen and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Observes life on an old-fashioned farm through the four seasons, celebrating the seasonal changes and growth in the lives of the people, the animals, and the countryside

Wisdom of the Last Farmer

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439182426
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Book Synopsis Wisdom of the Last Farmer by : David Mas Masumoto

Download or read book Wisdom of the Last Farmer written by David Mas Masumoto and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was when David Mas Masumoto's father had a stroke on the sprawling fields of their farm that the son looked with new eyes on the land where he and generations of his family have toiled for decades. Masumoto -- an organic farmer working the land in California's Central Valley -- farms stories as he farms peaches. In Wisdom of the Last Farmer, an impassioned memoir of revitalization and redemption, he finds the natural connections between generation and succession, fathers and children, booms and declines as he tells the story of his family and their farm. He brings us to the rich earth of America's Fruit Basket, under the vine trellises and canes where grapes are grown, and to the fruit orchards flush with green before harvest, where he uncovers and preserves the age-old wisdom that is fast disappearing in our modern, information-driven world -- and that is urgently needed in this time of food crises and social disruption. Masumoto sees the price the family has paid to grow complex heirloom peaches -- when the market rewards tasteless, big, and red fruits -- and the challenges of maintaining traditions and integrity while working in the modern, high-pressure agricultural marketplace. As his father's health declines along with the profitability of the family farm, Masumoto has the further hard work of nursing his father back to health -- becoming master to the teacher who once schooled him -- and is driven beyond economic concerns to even larger questions of life, death, and renewal. In his gorgeous, lyrical prose, Masumoto conjures the realities of farming life while weaving in the history of American agriculture over the past century, encapsulating universal themes of work along with wisdom that could be gleaned only from the earth. By the end of the workday, he understands the feeling of accomplishment when you've done your best...and discovers that it's when he lets go -- of both his father and control of nature -- that wisdom manifests itself. And, when Masumoto's daughter intends to return to the family farm, hope is found in the generations. In the quiet eloquence of Wisdom of the Last Farmer, you will see how your own destiny is involved in the future of your food, the land, and the farm.

Hill Farm Story

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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (656 download)

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Book Synopsis Hill Farm Story by : Ruth Janette Ruck

Download or read book Hill Farm Story written by Ruth Janette Ruck and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author tells of her continued happiness on the farm. Now married, she and her husband acquire new land and begin to breed Welsh Mountain Ponies.

Our Animal Friends at Maple Hill Farm

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Publisher : Turtleback
ISBN 13 : 9780613495165
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (951 download)

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Book Synopsis Our Animal Friends at Maple Hill Farm by : Alice Provensen

Download or read book Our Animal Friends at Maple Hill Farm written by Alice Provensen and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2001-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes animals on the authors' own farm in New York, including dogs, horses, pigs, geese, chickens, cows, goats, sheep, and cats.

Miracles on Maple Hill

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152047184
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (471 download)

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Book Synopsis Miracles on Maple Hill by : Virginia Sorensen

Download or read book Miracles on Maple Hill written by Virginia Sorensen and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The winner of the 1956 Newbery Medal is reissued. When Marly's father comes back from the war a different man, the family moves to Grandma's old house on Maple Hill, where miracles begin to happen. Illustrations.

Black Farmers in America

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Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813128684
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Book Synopsis Black Farmers in America by : John Francis Ficara

Download or read book Black Farmers in America written by John Francis Ficara and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Working the Land

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Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700617809
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Book Synopsis Working the Land by : Sandra K. Schackel

Download or read book Working the Land written by Sandra K. Schackel and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helen Tiegs didn't take to driving a tractor when she became a farmer's wife, but after fifty years she considers herself the hub of the family operation. Lila Hill taught piano, then ultimately took a job off the farm to augment the family income during a period of rising costs. From Montana's cattle pastures to New Mexico's sagebrush mesas, women on today's ranches and farms have played a crucial role in a way of life that is slowly disappearing from the western landscape. Recalling her own family-farm ties, Sandra Schackel set out to learn how these women's lives have changed over the second half of the twentieth century. In Working the Land, she collects oral histories from more than forty women—in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Oregon, and Texas—recalling their experiences as ranchers and farmers in a modernizing West. Through this diverse group of women—white and Hispanic, rich and poor, ranging in age from 24 to 83—we gain a new perspective on their ties to the land. Although western ranch and farm women have often been portrayed as secondary figures who devoted themselves to housekeeping in support of their husbands' labors, Schackel's interviews reveal that these women have had a much more active role in defining what we know as the modern American West. As Schackel listened to their stories, she found several currents running through their recollections, such as the satisfaction found in living the rural lifestyle and the flexibility of gender roles. She also learned how resourceful women developed new ways to make their farms work—by including tourism, summer camps, and bed-and-breakfast operations—and how many have become activists for land-based issues. And while some like Lila made the difficult decision to work off the farm, such sacrifices have enabled families to hold onto their beloved land. Rich with memory and insight into what makes America's family farms and ranches tick, Working the Land provides a deeper understanding of the West's development over the last fifty years along with new perspectives on shifting attitudes toward women in the workforce. It is both a long-overdue documentation of the lives of hard-working farm women and a celebration of their contributions to a truly American way of life.

Farming for Survival

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Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1477299610
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (772 download)

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Book Synopsis Farming for Survival by : Diane Vanacker-Hopp

Download or read book Farming for Survival written by Diane Vanacker-Hopp and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-12 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I write this book feeling a sense of urgency. I would love to see everybody that reads this book jump up and get started. I feel that our economy is worse off than the news media and government officials are willing to admit to the public. This book is not meant to be a scare tactic but if after you read the book it motivates you to action, it will have succeeded it purpose. We need to take action to help ourselves and our families. We need to constantly ask ourselves. ARE YOU READY?

The Honey Farm on the Hill

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Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 147222373X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (722 download)

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Book Synopsis The Honey Farm on the Hill by : Jo Thomas

Download or read book The Honey Farm on the Hill written by Jo Thomas and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Perfect escapist magic' Good Housekeeping 'Jo's book is as rich and sweet and moreish as baklava' Milly Johnson Perfect for fans of Jill Mansell and Carole Matthews, Jo Thomas's irresistible, sun-filled novel transports you straight to the mountains of Crete. Sometimes you have to go back before you can move forwards... One magical summer Nell fell in love in the mountains of Crete and her life changed for ever. Eighteen years later, Nell is ready for a new beginning. When she sees a honey farm in the same hilltop town has lost its bees, the opportunity is impossible to resist. Welcomed back to Greece by the warm sun and aroma of wild thyme, Nell finds memories of her past at every turn. But much has changed since she's been away. As Nell throws herself into restoring the honey farm, she starts to unlock the truth of what happened all those years ago. She soon learns that the course of true love - just like Cretan honey - can be wild and sweet. And well worth the wait... Jo Thomas takes you there. Readers are raving about THE HONEY FARM ON THE HILL: 'Jo Thomas has the ability in her writing to take you right there' I Read Novels 'Incredibly enjoyable ... could practically smell the herbs in the air' Rachel's Random Reads 'I absolutely loved this book ... a darned good story' Julie's World of Books 'So richly imagined and so wonderfully written - highly recommended!' On My Bookshelf 'Superb escapism! ... the way the views, smells, sounds of the island are captured are spectacular' Be Reader Books 'Jo Thomas is a purveyor of dreams. I defy anybody to read this book and at the end of it not to dream a little of the Cretan life' Short Books and Scribes 'Warm, sensual and heartwarming' Books, Life and Everything 'A charming and delightful slice of escapist romantic fiction' Heat 'The ultimate cheery tale' Sun

Dispossession

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Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469602024
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Book Synopsis Dispossession by : Pete Daniel

Download or read book Dispossession written by Pete Daniel and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2013-03-29 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1940 and 1974, the number of African American farmers fell from 681,790 to just 45,594--a drop of 93 percent. In his hard-hitting book, historian Pete Daniel analyzes this decline and chronicles black farmers' fierce struggles to remain on the land in the face of discrimination by bureaucrats in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He exposes the shameful fact that at the very moment civil rights laws promised to end discrimination, hundreds of thousands of black farmers lost their hold on the land as they were denied loans, information, and access to the programs essential to survival in a capital-intensive farm structure. More than a matter of neglect of these farmers and their rights, this "passive nullification" consisted of a blizzard of bureaucratic obfuscation, blatant acts of discrimination and cronyism, violence, and intimidation. Dispossession recovers a lost chapter of the black experience in the American South, presenting a counternarrative to the conventional story of the progress achieved by the civil rights movement.

Uncultivated

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Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603588450
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)

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Book Synopsis Uncultivated by : Andy Brennan

Download or read book Uncultivated written by Andy Brennan and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, food is being reconsidered. It’s a front-and-center topic in everything from politics to art, from science to economics. We know now that leaving food to government and industry specialists was one of the twentieth century’s greatest mistakes. The question is where do we go from here. Author Andy Brennan describes uncultivation as a process: It involves exploring the wild; recognizing that much of nature is omitted from our conventional ways of seeing and doing things (our cultivations); and realizing the advantages to embracing what we’ve somehow forgotten or ignored. For most of us this process can be difficult, like swimming against the strong current of our modern culture. The hero of this book is the wild apple. Uncultivated follows Brennan’s twenty-four-year history with naturalized trees and shows how they have guided him toward successes in agriculture, in the art of cider making, and in creating a small-farm business. The book contains useful information relevant to those particular fields, but is designed to connect the wild to a far greater audience, skillfully blending cultural criticism with a food activist’s agenda. Apples rank among the most manipulated crops in the world, because not only do farmers want perfect fruit, they also assume the health of the tree depends on human intervention. Yet wild trees live all around us, and left to their own devices, they achieve different forms of success that modernity fails to apprehend. Andy Brennan learned of the health and taste advantages of such trees, and by emulating nature in his orchard (and in his cider) he has also enjoyed environmental and financial benefits. None of this would be possible by following today’s prevailing winds of apple cultivation. In all fields, our cultural perspective is limited by a parallel proclivity. It’s not just agriculture: we all must fight tendencies toward specialization, efficiency, linear thought, and predetermined growth. We have cultivated those tendencies at the exclusion of nature’s full range. If Uncultivated is about faith in nature, and the power it has to deliver us from our own mistakes, then wild apple trees have already shown us the way.

The Third Plate

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1594204071
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (942 download)

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Download or read book The Third Plate written by Dan Barber and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A] renowned chef ... Barber explores the evolution of American food from the "first plate," or industrially-produced, meat-heavy dishes, to the "second plate" of grass-fed meat and organic greens, and says that both of these approaches are ultimately neither sustainable nor healthy. Instead, Barber proposes Americans should move to the "third plate," a cuisine rooted in seasonal productivity, natural livestock rhythms, whole-grains, and small portions of free-range meat"--Provided by publisher.

Last Child in the Woods

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Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 156512586X
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (651 download)

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Book Synopsis Last Child in the Woods by : Richard Louv

Download or read book Last Child in the Woods written by Richard Louv and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2008-04-22 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The children and nature movement is fueled by this fundamental idea: the child in nature is an endangered species, and the health of children and the health of the Earth are inseparable.” —Richard Louv, from the new edition In his landmark work Last Child in the Woods, Richard Louv brought together cutting-edge studies that pointed to direct exposure to nature as essential for a child’s healthy physical and emotional development. Now this new edition updates the growing body of evidence linking the lack of nature in children’s lives and the rise in obesity, attention disorders, and depression. Louv’s message has galvanized an international back-to-nature campaign to “Leave No Child Inside.” His book will change the way you think about our future and the future of our children. “[The] national movement to ‘leave no child inside’ . . . has been the focus of Capitol Hill hearings, state legislative action, grass-roots projects, a U.S. Forest Service initiative to get more children into the woods and a national effort to promote a ‘green hour’ in each day. . . . The increased activism has been partly inspired by a best-selling book, Last Child in the Woods, and its author, Richard Louv.” —The Washington Post “Last Child in the Woods, which describes a generation so plugged into electronic diversions that it has lost its connection to the natural world, is helping drive a movement quickly flourishing across the nation.” —The Nation’s Health “This book is an absolute must-read for parents.” —The Boston Globe Now includes A Field Guide with 100 Practical Actions We Can Take Discussion Points for Book Groups, Classrooms, and Communities Additional Notes by the Author New and Updated Research from the U.S. and Abroad

The Soul of Vermont

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Publisher : Countryman Press
ISBN 13 : 9780881506778
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book The Soul of Vermont written by Richard W. Brown and published by Countryman Press. This book was released on 2005-08-30 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographic celebration of Vermont's landscape and people documents the experiences of native residents who work the land, in a lavish tribute that considers how their way of life is rapidly changing. Reprint.

INSCOM Journal

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book INSCOM Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Vint Hills Farms Station, Disposal and Reuse

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Vint Hills Farms Station, Disposal and Reuse written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: