Five Bushel Farm


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Five Bushel Farm


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Fortælling om drengen Andrew, hvis far formodes at være forsvundet på havet. Han bor derfor hos en nybyggerfamilie i Maine og lever i håbet om, at hans far er i live




The Fair American


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Pierre, sole survivor of an aristocratic family in the French Revolution, escapes to America aboard the Fair American with the aid of Sally, Andrew, and Andrew's father.




Farming for Us All


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Farming for Us All gives us the opportunity to explore the possibilities for social, environmental, and economic change that practical, dialogic agriculture presents.




The White Horse


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Captured by pirates while sailing from Maine to Genoa in the years following the American Revolution, Sally and Andrew plan their escape after being sold to the sultan of Morocco.




Five Thousand Days Like This One


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Amid the turmoil after her father's death-decisions to be made, the future of the family farm to be settled-Jane Brox, using her acclaimed "compassion, honesty, and restraint" (The Boston Globe), begins a search for her family's story. The search soon leads her to the quintessentially American history of New England's Merrimack Valley, its farmers, and the immigrant workers caught up in the industrial textile age. Jane Brox's first book, Here and Nowhere Else, won the 1996 L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and magazines, and has been represented in Best American Essays. She is a frequent contributor to The Georgia Review. Jane Brox lives in the Merrimack Valley of Massachusetts.




Away Goes Sally


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In late eighteenth-century Massachusetts, Sally, an orphan living on a farm with her three aunts and two uncles, is excited when, after deciding to relocate in Maine, the family sets out on the long and adventurous winter journey taking with them a little house on runners so that her oldest aunt may never have to leave her own fireside behind.







Farmers' Bulletins


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Monthly Reports of the Department of Agriculture


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Contain reports on the condition of the crops, on special subjects of interest to farmers, and meteorological observations.