Growing Season

Author : Sarah Frey
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780593129418

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The Growing Season by Sarah Frey Pdf

“A gutsy success story” (The New York Times Book Review) about one tenacious woman’s journey to escape rural poverty and create a billion-dollar farming business—without ever leaving the land she loves 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 alongside her brothers. She spent much of her early childhood dreaming of running away to the big city—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, Frey gave up on her dreams of escape, took over the farm, and created her own produce company. Refusing to play by traditional rules, at seventeen she began talking her way into suit-filled boardrooms, making deals with the nation’s largest retailers. Her early negotiations became so legendary that Harvard Business School published some of her deals as case studies, which have turned out to be favorites among its students. Today, her family-operated company, Frey Farms, has become one of America’s largest fresh produce growers and shippers, with farmland spread across seven states. Thanks to the millions of melons and pumpkins she sells annually, Frey has been dubbed “America’s Pumpkin Queen” by the national press. The Growing Season tells the inspiring story of how a scrappy rural childhood gave Frey the grit and resiliency to take risks that paid off in unexpected ways. Rather than leaving her community, she 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.

Author : Melanie Lageschulte
Publisher : Fremont Creek Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1952066042

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Harvest Season by Melanie Lageschulte Pdf

The right road will always lead you home. But how do you know which path to choose? As late summer fades into fall, Melinda's efforts at her rented farmhouse are starting to bear fruit. She's learned to preserve produce, outsmart some stubborn chickens and wrangle a flock of spoiled sheep. She revels in the peace she's found in the country, where time is marked by morning-fresh eggs and stunning sunsets. But even in the small town of Prosper, nothing stays the same. One member of the hardware store's coffee group shares a startling announcement, and a trip back to the city makes Melinda realize how deep her roots run in rural Iowa. When autumn's changing winds bring new opportunities, will she seek the security of her old life or take a chance on an uncertain future? Second in a series Large print Font is 16pt Georgia. See back cover for sample of text.

Author : Maryann Cocca-Leffler
Publisher : Union Square Kids
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-13
Category : Flowers
ISBN : 1454927046

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Growing Season by Maryann Cocca-Leffler Pdf

El and Jo are the shortest kids in class, and they're inseparable. But what happens when Jo starts to grow? This sweet picture book explores the joys and challenges of friendship and growing up. "A sweet story with emotional depth." --Kirkus El and Jo are the smallest students in their class--and best friends, too, like peas in a pod. Even their names are short. But in springtime, something BIG happens: Jo starts growing like a weed, while El feels smaller every day. On the last day of school, their teacher asked every child to pick a plant to care for over the summer. All the other kids reach over El to grab their plant, and she has to take the very last one: a tiny, flowerless aster. At first, she's disappointed. But as summer progresses, the aster begins to bloom--and so does El

Author : Helen Sedgwick
Publisher : Random House
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473548756

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The Growing Season by Helen Sedgwick Pdf

What if anyone could have a baby? A boldly original and unforgettable novel from a rising star. Now we have equality. Now we’ve outgrown our biology. With FullLife’s baby pouch, women are liberated and men can share the joy of childbearing. Holly’s whole family knows the benefits, but Eva doesn’t believe society has changed for the better and Piotr has uncovered a secret behind FullLife’s glossy facade. What separates them may just bring them together, as they search for the truth about FullLife and each face a truth of their own. 'A compelling what-if about the female body, technology and power' Guardian

Author : Seni Glaister
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780008285043

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‘Extremely charming’ Marian Keyes on Mr Doubler Begins Again When life gets tough, do you give up? Or do you grow up?

Author : Arlene Bernstein
Publisher : Council Oak Books
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004-05
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1885171838

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Growing Season by Arlene Bernstein Pdf

After losing three children, Arlene Bernstein retreated to the garden to escape her inner torment and grief - and there, in a small patch of land surrounded by the gentle rolling hills of her Napa Valley vineyard she discovered a series of remarkable insights. As she begins to feel grounded in the earth beneath her feet, her inner obstacles and challenges transform into opportunities for celebrating the joys of life. Growing Season is an invitation to live mindfully and reconnect with our deepest sources of creativity and nourishment. Reminiscent of A Gift From the Sea, this book teaches us how to slow down and notice what is right in front of us, and how to emerge from grief transformed and renewed.

Author : Carol Lynn Pearson
Publisher : Bookcraft, Incorporated
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015000542277

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Author : Carl H. Klaus
Publisher : HMH
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780544343528

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My Vegetable Love by Carl H. Klaus Pdf

“Home gardeners, cooks and nature lovers will savor this delightful account” of a journey from first spring planting to final fall harvest (Publishers Weekly). My Vegetable Love is a daily record of a growing season in Iowa—but it’s about much more than planting peppers, tending tomatoes, or harvesting eggplants. It’s about all the things that influence this gardener: the weather, the neighborhood, his wife’s possibly recurring cancer, the changing nature of the academic community. It’s about the last months of his twenty-year-old cat, about his dog, and about all the other humans and animals in his gardening world. And about his family: the aunts and uncles who cared for and fed a six-year-old orphan, and helped him understand that good food was a way of knowing that someone cared. In all the gardens he has tended, the dills he has pickled, and the dinners he has cooked, Carl H. Klaus has tried to carry on that tradition and pass it on to his own children—and in this “delectable” book, he shares it with us as well (Publishers Weekly). “Part Gilbert White, part Henry David Thoreau, this chronicle of an Iowa gardener’s year has drawn from the heartland a calm, compassionate harvest.” —Roger B. Swain, host of PBS’s Victory Garden “Wholeheartedly celebrates friendship, love, pets, the elements of family, academia, cooking, eating—and of course, gardening . . . Bon appétit—and good reading.” —Smithsonian

Author : David Hassler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Agricultural laborers
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173019093464

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"Accompanying these vibrant photographs are revealing first-person narratives written by David Hassler.

Author : Sarah Philpott
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780736982795

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The Growing Season by Sarah Philpott Pdf

"Sarah has a voice that can speak to us all, and this book is a beautiful representation of her ability to just be real. After reading this book you’ll feel like she's your best friend." —Jill Wagner, actress Wisdom on Everything from the Soil to Your Soul Farm life calls to the heart of every Christian, whether we experience it on daily walks through wide open spaces or in the country music we play while stuck in morning traffic. This is by God’s design—the cycle of trusting, sowing, and reaping mirrors our journey with Him. With The Growing Season, you’ll witness how intricately farming and faith intertwine. Illuminated through the Bible’s truths and author Sarah Philpott’s own stories from life on a Tennessee cattle ranch, you’ll venture month by month and season by season towards relishing the splendor of God’s creation, realizing the need for you to trust Him in good times and bad, and rejoicing in the vision of abundance He has for you. Packed with tips for baking, grilling, planting, and learning farm lingo, this collection of funny, moving, and inspiring insights will help keep you rooted in God’s desire for your life. Kick off your work boots, pour yourself a glass of sweet iced tea, and draw closer to your Creator as you celebrate His provision.

Author : Sarah Frey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780593129395

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The Growing Season by Sarah Frey Pdf

"One woman's tenacious journey to escape poverty and create a billion-dollar farming business--without ever leaving the land she loved. 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. Thanks to the millions of melons and pumpkins she sells annually, Sarah has been dubbed 'America's Pumpkin Queen' by the national press. The Growing Season tells 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"--

Author : Michael Yarmosky
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595299744

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A Growing Season by Michael Yarmosky Pdf

Just calm down. Take a deep breath, Emma thought. This is no time to panic. Read it again, she told herself. She scanned the note a second time, this time carefully studying each word. Halfway through she began to feel sick to her stomach. Emma had come a long way in conquering her timidness, but the thought of somebody threatening to hurt her was terrifying. She had seen other kids picked on in school. It was upsetting even to watch people being teased. They looked so helpless and embarrassed. When a fourth-grader was beaten up last year on the playground, Emma had pleaded with her mom to let her stay home the next day. Her mom had assured her that most kids were kind and wouldn't hurt other children. Yeah, most kids, she thought now. What about the rest? Most doesn't mean all. Excerpt from A Growing Season

Author : Eliot Coleman
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781603582070

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Four-Season Harvest by Eliot Coleman Pdf

"Eliot is the reason I’m cooking. . . . I’ve followed that path because Eliot made it possible, and exciting, to farm in the four seasons."—Dan Barber, chef "There is hardly a more well-known or well-respected name among organic farmers than Eliot Coleman."—Civil Eats Learn season-extending techniques and eat the best food—garden fresh and chemical free—all year long, with little effort or expense. If you love the joys of eating home-garden vegetables but always thought those joys had to stop at the end of summer, this book is for you. Eliot Coleman introduces the surprising fact that most of the United States has more winter sunshine than the south of France. He shows how North American gardeners can successfully use that sun to raise a wide variety of traditional winter vegetables in backyard cold frames and plastic covered tunnel greenhouses without supplementary heat. Inside, you’ll also learn: Composting techniques Simple Mineral Amendments Planning and preparing your garden site Seeds for four seasons How to build cold frames, high tunnels, and mobile greenhouses How to cope with snow How to create a root cellar and other storage techniques And much, much more! Coleman expands upon his own experiences with new ideas learned on a winter-vegetable pilgrimage across the ocean to the acknowledged kingdom of vegetable cuisine, the southern part of France, which lies on the 44th parallel, the same latitude as his farm in Maine. This story of sunshine, weather patterns, old limitations and expectations, and new realities is delightfully innovative in the best gardening tradition. Four-Season Harvest will have you feasting on fresh produce from your garden all through the winter. "The man, the farmer, the legend, is Eliot Coleman."—The Atlantic To learn more about the possibility of a four-season farm, please visit Coleman's website www.fourseasonfarm.com.

Author : Helen McGawley
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781462880874

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The Long Growing Season by Helen McGawley Pdf

Toward the close of World War I, Frederich Stroh leaves the Kaiser’s army and returns home with a wife and baby. But because of her somewhat dubious past, he soon realizes that Edda will never be accepted by either his family or his hometown. He finally concludes that, like so many others before them and so many others after them, they must immigrate to America. They must begin a new life where no one knows their past. Board the ship with them now. Share their trials, tribulations, and triumphs as they struggle to make a new life in a new land. And if you think that you have read stories like this before, be assured that you have not.

Author : Melanie Watts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Organic gardening
ISBN : 1771620110

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Growing Food in a Short Season by Melanie Watts Pdf

Those fortunate enough to live in northern climes celebrate the warm summers blessed with some of the longest days of anywhere on earth -- albeit for only a short season. This combination of a short temperate season and long hours of daylight presents a unique challenge for northern gardeners with hopes of harvesting before the autumn frosts arrive.Melanie J. Watts, long-time resident of the B.C. Peace Region and a Master Gardener, explains that with the right gardening practices the short northern summer can lead to an explosion of life, producing enough colour and food to see anyone through the dark days of winter. Providing helpful hints and wise gardening philosophy for a productive food garden, Watts begins at ground level with instruction on how to use compost and manure to create fertile soil that will lend its life to plants. A variety of seed options and planting methods are presented -- including start times and placement -- taking into account microclimates that occur in each garden as well as the benefits of companion planting. Additionally, plants that are easily grown in zones 2 and 3 are listed with concise how-to-grow information. Watts provides full chapters on garden maintenance and harvesting, as well as tips on cooking and preserving your bounty with great recipes that focus on eating seasonally. A gardening journey from the ground to the plate, Growing Food in a Short Season emphasizes success through working with nature and using sustainable, organic practices. Watts provides a valuable resource -- even for those gardeners who don't have to endure the seven long winter months of the Canadian north.