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Author
Publisher
Gibbs Smith
Language
English
Formats
Description
From a farmgirl's table to yours.
The New England farmgirl, transplanted to North Carolina, shares heartwarming stories and personal advice along with a bushel of new recipes for using produce from the garden or farmers market, stocking a pantry with canned goods, making homemade bread and traditional family recipes, and entertaining guests at get-togethers with recipes for lemonades and drinks, salads, hearty main courses, pies, cakes,...
The New England farmgirl, transplanted to North Carolina, shares heartwarming stories and personal advice along with a bushel of new recipes for using produce from the garden or farmers market, stocking a pantry with canned goods, making homemade bread and traditional family recipes, and entertaining guests at get-togethers with recipes for lemonades and drinks, salads, hearty main courses, pies, cakes,...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of a street-smart city girl who must adapt to a new life on an apple farm after she falls in love with Adrian Curtis, the pride of a prominent local family whose lives and orchards are said to be cursed. Married after only three months, young Theresa finds life with Adrian on the farm far more difficult and dangerous than she expected. Rejected by her husband's family as an outsider, she slowly learns about the isolated world of farming...
8) The farmer
Author
Series
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Explore the life of a colonial farmer and his importance to the community, as well as everyday life, responsibilities, and social practices during that time"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Offers a travelogue of the author's trip to family-owned farms across America to help farmers harvest over a dozen food crops, including wheat, cranberries, and Hopi blue corn, and his efforts to form connections with them and the land.
12) Colonial farm
Author
Publisher
Childrens Press
Pub. Date
[1976]
Language
English
Description
Text and photographs present life on a self-sufficient farm in colonial Virginia.
15) Country wisdom
Author
Publisher
Anchor Press
Pub. Date
1974.
Language
English
Description
An almanac of rural lore, nature facts, and other "country wisdom" concerning the weather, moon, livestock, medicine, and othertopics.
16) Polar
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Clayton is a ne'-er-do-well notorious among the townies for his devotion to pornographic movies on the satin channel. Suddenly without warning, he asks to be called "Titus" and appears to possess prophetic gifts which win him fame and popularity. With his newfound powers, can he help in the search for a missing child?
17) A farm album
Author
Series
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Text, photographs, and illustrations identify and trace patterns of change and continuity in American farms during the past 150 years, covering such topics as types of farms, farm buildings, farm life, and the effects of weather on farming.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A collection of essays celebrating the cultural heritage of history and home argues that arrogance must be abandoned in favor of respect and care for oneself, one's neighbors, and the land.
In a time when our relationship to the natural world is ruled by the violence and greed of unbridled consumerism, Wendell Berry speaks out in these prescient essays, drawn from his fifty-year campaign on behalf of American lands and communities. The writings gathered...
Author
Series
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"Born in the Country was the first, and is still the only general history of rural America published. Ranging from pre-Columbian times to the enormous changes of the twentieth century, Born in the Country masterfully integrates agricultural, technological, and economic themes with new questions social historians have raised about the American experience, including the different experiences of whites and blacks, men and women, natives and new immigrants....
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