Author : Robert L. Switzer
Publisher : Center for American Places
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,57 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Dairy farms
ISBN : 9781935195344
Switzer's memoir covers four generations of life on the family farm in Illinois. The tale is enhanced with photographs plus watercolors and woodblock prints by the author's wife and son. Frank E. Barmore adds information about the nineteenth-century history of this family farm, the Barmore family, and the settling of that area of Illinois.
Author : Margaret L. Brew
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 33,99 MB
Release : 1933
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Author : Beth Hoffman
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,67 MB
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 164283159X
"Eloquent and detailed...It's hard to have hope, but the organized observations and plans of Hoffman and people like her give me some. Read her book -- and listen." -- Jane Smiley, The Washington Post In her late 40s, Beth Hoffman decided to upend her comfortable life as a professor and journalist to move to her husband's family ranch in Iowa--all for the dream of becoming a farmer. There was just one problem: money. Half of America's two million farms made less than $300 in 2019, and many struggle just to stay afloat. Bet the Farm chronicles this struggle through Beth's eyes. She must contend with her father-in-law, who is reluctant to hand over control of the land. Growing oats is good for the environment but ends up being very bad for the wallet. And finding somewhere, in the midst of COVID-19, to slaughter grass finished beef is a nightmare. If Beth can't make it, how can farmers who confront racism, lack access to land, or don't have other jobs to fall back on hack it? Bet the Farm is a first-hand account of the perils of farming today and a personal exploration of more just and sustainable ways of producing food.
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Page : 60 pages
File Size : 37,91 MB
Release : 1941
Category : Agricultural education
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Author : Dudley Murfee Clements
Publisher :
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 49,10 MB
Release : 1941
Category : Agricultural education
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Author : Ted Genoways
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 37,63 MB
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0393292584
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 : Roslyn Ross
Publisher :
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 39,90 MB
Release : 2021-09-29
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ISBN :
A family can't decide whether they want to live in a large, vibrant city or enjoy the peace and tranquility of farm life, so they decide to live in two places. They spend part of the year in Los Angeles and part of the year on a farm in a rural area of Nicaragua. The stories in this book are all true. They are part "slice of life" stories for children and part parenting anthropology -- the author makes some pretty non-mainstream parenting choices and make and effort to explain why. In City Family Farm Family the author welcomes the reader to take a look at what regular, day-to-day life is like in her family.
Author : Michael J. Rosen
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,19 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0761385983
Told through the voices of the children, this inside view of life on their farm is authentic and sometimes surprising. Readers will learn about baling hay, tending cattle, work dogs, hunting, manure, and other activities on the Bennett farm, as well as some insights into the culture of living in a rural area.
Author : Steven R. Hoffbeck
Publisher : Borealis Book
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,22 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN :
Tells a story of the labour and heartbreak suffered by five families struggling to make the hay that fed their livestock, a story not just about grass, alfalfa, and clover, but also about sweat and tears, toil and loss. This is an epic -- the history of a man's struggle with nature as well as man's struggle against machines. It relates the story of farmers and their obligations to their families, to the animals they fed, and to the land they tended.
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Page : 152 pages
File Size : 28,98 MB
Release : 1938
Category : Agriculture
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