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University of Minnesota Press
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English
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"On a twenty-acre farm in Iowa in 1995, Angela Tedesco planted the seeds of Turtle Farm, introducing Community Supported Agriculture to Iowa. In Finding Turtle Farm, Tedesco recounts this adventure in all its down-and-dirty work and wonder, from plan and plot to harvest, in an ultimately hopeful account of what it means to meet the most basic of human needs"--
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English
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Beth Hoffman was living the good life: she had a successful career as a journalist and professor, a comfortable home in San Francisco, and plenty of close friends and family. Yet in her late 40s, she and her husband decided to leave the big city and move to his family ranch in Iowa all for the dream of becoming a farmer, to put into practice everything she had learned over decades of reporting on food and agriculture. There was just one problem: money....
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Publisher
America Through Time
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"If you have ever wondered what is hiding up at the other end of weed covered driveways on dusty Iowa country roads, wonder no longer. Walk with Julie Bronson as she takes readers on a tour around and through some of the old farmsteads that are forgotten today. Beautifully aged wood and stone, appearing to be frozen in another time, come to life through the camera lens. Admire the people and practices of long ago and witness these structures before...
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Boxcar children volume 101
Publisher
A. Whitman & Co
Pub. Date
©2004
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IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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The Aldens visit a farm that's famous for its corn maze and the festival held there every year. But someone is damaging the maze at night. Can the Boxcar Children catch the culprit and save the festival?
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WestBow Press, a division of Thomas Nelson & Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"On the run after committing a crime and deserting the Civilian Conservation Corp in 1935, Harlan Jensen has been riding the rails and living in fear that someone will recognize him. Hunger causes him to jump off a train at the Meyer farm in rural West Pottawattamie County, Iowa, where he plans to work just long enough to earn a square meal and then be on his way. Elsie Meyer, the farmwife who feeds him, knows more about God's plan for his life than...
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Prospecta Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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"IOWA: Echoes of a Vanishing Landscape contains 89 of [David Ottenstein's] black and white photographs and includes texts by Alan Trachtenberg of Yale University and Jonathan Andelson, director of the Center for Prairie Studies at Grinnell College in Iowa. The book explores the transformation of the Iowa landscape from one based on the agrarian notion of the small, diversified farm to a landscape geared toward industrial scale agriculture. [Ottenstein's]...
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Ice Cube Press, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Interested in the truth about Iowa and the Midwest's water quality? You won't get it from Iowa's agricultural and political leaders. Among midwestern Corn Belt states, Iowa contains some of the world's most productive farmland; the state frequently tops all others in harvested totals of corn and soybeans and has helped the U.S. be the world's largest producer of corn every year since at least 1961. Iowa also has a lot of animals that eat corn and...
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Series
Contributions in American history volume no. 79
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
1978
Language
English
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