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The New Farm : our ten years on the front lines of the good food revolution / by Preston, Brent,1969-author.;
"The inspiring and sometimes hilarious story of a family that quit the rat race and left the city to live out their ideals on an organic farm, and ended up building a model for a new kind of agriculture. When Brent Preston, his wife, Gillian, and their two young children left Toronto ten years ago, they arrived on an empty plot of land with no machinery, no money and not much of a clue. Through a decade of grinding toil, they built a real organic farm, one that is profitable, sustainable, and their family's sole source of income. Along the way they earned the respect and loyalty of some of the best chefs in North America, and created a farm that is a leading light in the good food movement. Told with humour and heart in Preston's unflinchingly honest voice, The New Farm arrives at a time of unprecedented interest in food and farming, with readers keenly aware of the overwhelming environmental, social and moral costs of our industrial food system. The New Farm offers a vision for a hopeful future, a model of agriculture that brings people together around good food, promotes a healthier planet, and celebrates great food and good living."--
Subjects: Preston, Brent, 1969-; New Farm.; Organic farming; Sustainable agriculture; Food supply;
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Good husbandry : growing food, love, and family on Essex Farm / by Kimball, Kristin,author.;
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Kimball, Kristin.; Essex Farm.; Farm life; Farmers;
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The good daughters / by Maynard, Joyce,1953-;
The lives and fortunes of two New Hampshire families, the Planks and the Dickersons, are entwined through the youngest daughters of each family, who were born on the same day in the same hospital.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Farm life; Female friendship; Neighbors;
© 2010., William Morrow,
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The second-chance dog : a love story / by Katz, Jon.;
The dog who kept men away -- The dog nobody wanted -- The studio barn -- I'll wait, no obligations -- The dating game (sort of) -- Me and Davy Crockett at the Alamo -- Frieda's war -- The beef jerky campaign -- The show-your-art guru -- Willfulness and progress -- Brownie -- Dreams do come true -- "She saved our lives" -- Into the wild -- The lesson of the Asian pear -- Dancing naked in the snow -- "Obedience and love" -- The Christmas miracle -- My happy ending -- Epilogue: Frieda in autumn -- A note to the reader.
Subjects: Katz, Jon.; Dog owners; Dogs; Dogs; Farm life; Human-animal relationships;
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The growing season : how I built a new life-- and saved an American farm / by Frey, Sarah,author.;
The youngest of her parents' combined twenty-one children, Sarah Frey grew up on a struggling farm in Southern Illinois, often having to grow, catch, or hunt her own dinner. She spent much of her early childhood dreaming of running away to Hollywood, Chicago -- or really anywhere with central heating. At fifteen, she moved out of her family home and started her own fresh produce delivery business with nothing more than an old pickup truck. Two years later, when the family farm faced inevitable foreclosure, Sarah gave up on her dreams of escape, and, at seventeen, took over the farm and started her own produce company there. Refusing to play by traditional rules, Sarah talked her way into suit-filled boardrooms, made deals with the nation's largest retailers, and became so legendary that the Harvard Business School published a case study on her negotiation skills. Today, Sarah's family-operated company, Frey Farms, has sold more than a billion dollars' worth of fresh produce, beverages, and consumer packaged goods, and has become one of America's largest fresh produce suppliers, with farmland spread across seven states. This is the inspiring story of how a scrappy rural childhood gave Sarah the grit and resiliency to take risks that paid off in unexpected ways. Rather than leaving her community, Sarah found adventure and opportunity in one of the most forgotten parts of our country. With fearlessness and creativity, she literally dug her destiny out of the dirt.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Frey, Sarah.; Frey Farms.; Women farmers; Women chief executive officers; Produce trade; Agricultural industries;
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Birnam Wood / by Catton, Eleanor,1985-author.;
"The Booker-winning author of The Luminaries delivers a gripping thriller of high drama and kaleidoscopic insight into what drives us to survive"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Farms; Gardening; Landslides; Rich people; Survival;
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We went to the woods : a novel / by Dolan-Leach, Caite,author.;
Subjects: Self-reliant living; Abandoned farms; Friendship; Interpersonal relations; Man-woman relationships; Secrets;
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Life-size farm : horse, cow, llama, rabbit, and more--an all-new actual-size animal encyclopedia / by Kempe, Barbara Hauley.; Ozaki, Tamaki.;
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Subjects: Domestic animals;
© c2012., Seven Footer Kids,
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Hop' til you drop / by Griffin, J. M.;
Juliette "Jules" Bridge is devoted to rabbit rescue and rehabilitation on her beloved Fur Bridge Farm in rural New Hampshire, but she also likes to do volunteer work wherever and whenever she can. This spring she's offered to help hide painted eggs at the Hop 'Til You Drop Easter egg hunt--and of course she's bringing along her black-and-white rabbit, Bun. In fact, he insists on it. Jules knows, because Bun communicates with her telepathically... But their egg hiding is disrupted by a hare-raising scene: their unpleasant supervisor, Della Meany, lies peacefully on the grass with stems of Lily of the Valley on her chest, surrounded by garishly decorated Easter eggs. Is someone sending a message by staging the corpse? As they begin to examine the crime scene, Jules spots a tall, two-legged rabbit fleeing into the woods. Perhaps late for an important date? If their prime suspect is a person in an Easter Bunny costume, it seems a safe bet the killer is a real basket case. Jules and Bun will need to put their heads together--because the hunt is on...
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Rabbits; Animal rescue; Telepathy; Human-animal relationships; Farms; Murder; Undercover operations;
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Omega farm : a memoir / by McPhee, Martha,author.;
"A long-awaited memoir from an award-winning novelist -- a candid, riveting account of her complicated, bohemian childhood and her return home to care for her ailing mother. In March 2020, Martha McPhee, her husband, and their two almost-grown children set out for her childhood home in New Jersey, where she finds herself grappling simultaneously with a mother slipping into severe dementia and a house that's been neglected of late. As Martha works to manage her mother's care and the sprawling, ramshackle property -- a broken septic system, invasive bamboo, dying ash trees -- she is pulled back into her childhood, almost against her will. Martha grew up at Omega Farm with her four sisters, five stepsiblings, mother, and stepfather, in a house filled with art, people, and the kind of chaos that was sometimes benevolent, sometimes more sinister. Caring for her mother and her children, struggling to mend the forest, the past relentlessly asserts itself -- even as Martha's mother, the person she might share her memories with or even try to hold to account, no longer knows who Martha is. A masterful exploration of a complicated family legacy and a powerful story of environmental and personal repair, Omega Farm is a testament to hope in the face of suffering, and a courageous tale about how returning home can offer a new way to understand the past"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; McPhee, Martha.; McPhee, Martha; McPhee, Martha; Adult children of aging parents; Aging parents; Dementia; Family farms; Forest management; Women novelists, American;
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