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Author
Language
English
Description
"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 small family farm--and their entire way of life--are under siege.Beyond the threat posed by rising corporate ownership of land and livestock,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A young Old Order Amish woman's determination to flee from a bad decision and save a farm pits her against the Amish man determined to see that she falls. Can the two find common ground? Or will their unflinching efforts toward opposite goals blur the bigger picture--a path to forgiveness, glimpses of grace, and the promise of love?
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Language
English
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Description
"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"--
4) Chirp
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Moving to Vermont the summer after seventh grade, a young gymnast hides a secret as she makes new friends and investigates her grandmother's claim that someone is trying to destroy her cricket farm.--
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Looks at farming and the ways that children from different cultures help in the production and distribution of food around the world, with attention paid to environmental and food supply issues.
Author
Publisher
Voyageur Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This is a comprehensive, encyclopedic guide for the small-scale family farmer, the hobby farmer, or the potential farmer. They explain the basics of farming from start to finish: from planting to harvesting and farrowing to marketing. With the authors' help, you'll learn how to grow crops, repair a fence, drive a tractor, keep livestock (from bees to cattle), and much more.
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"On the farm, workers pick vegetables, collect eggs, and make cheese. At the market the next day, the workers set up their stands and prepare for shoppers to arrive. Amy, the baker at the Busy Bee Café, has a very special meal in mind--and, of course, all the farmers show up at the café to enjoy the results of their hard work"--
13) Farm
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the activities on a busy family farm from the spring when preparations for planting begin to the autumn when the cats grow winter coats and the cold rains begin to fall.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From a pioneer of the regenerative agriculture movement, a memoir-meets-manifesto on betting the farm on a better future for our food, animals, land, local communities, and our climate. Featured in Food and Country, premiering at Sundance 2023. Raised as a fourth-generation farmer, when Will Harris inherited White Oak Pastures he was a full-time commodity cowboy who played hard and fast with every tool the system offered - chemicals, antibiotics,...
Author
Publisher
Storey Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From Josh Volk, author of the best-selling Compact Farms, these inventive tools and step-by-step instructions for making and modifying them, help small, diversified farms simplify and streamline their operations for less wear and tear on human workers and for greater efficiency overall." -- publisher.
17) Birnam Wood
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Birnam Wood is on the move . . . A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass on New Zealand's South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike and leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood, an undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. For years, the group has struggled to break even. To occupy the farm...
18) Farm patterns
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Simple text and color photographs introduce different kinds of patterns seen on farms.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pebble, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Treat kids to a seek-and-find field trip to the farm. Kids will discover the different animals, machines, and buildings found on a farm in these full-color photo puzzles. Pictographs and word labels are included in each to-find list."--
Author
Publisher
New Degree Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
We love The American Farmer. We trust them to grow our food, to be part of children's nursery rhymes, to provide the economic backbone of rural communities, and to embody a version of the American dream. At the same time, we know that "corporate farms" are disrupting the agrarian way of life that we so admire, and that we've got to do something to stop it. So what's our plan for saving the farms we love? In Farm (and Other F Words), Sarah K Mock dismantles...
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