Letters To Farmers

Author : Martha Hodgkins
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781616896034

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Letters to a Young Farmer by Martha Hodgkins Pdf

An agricultural revolution is sweeping the land. Appreciation for high-quality food, often locally grown, an awareness of the fragility of our farmlands, and a new generation of young people interested in farming, animals, and respect for the earth have come together to create a new agrarian community. To this group of farmers, chefs, activists, and visionaries, Letters to a Young Farmer is addressed. Three dozen esteemed leaders of the changes that made this revolution possible speak to the highs and lows of farming life in vivid and personal letters specially written for this collaboration. Barbara Kingsolver speaks to the tribe of farmers—some born to it, many self-selected—with love, admiration, and regret. Dan Barber traces the rediscovery of lost grains and foodways. Michael Pollan bridges the chasm between agriculture and nature. Bill McKibben connects the early human quest for beer to the modern challenge of farming in a rapidly changing climate. Letters to a Young Farmer is a vital road map of how we eat and farm, and why now, more than ever before, we need farmers.

Author : Gene Logsdon
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 9781603587259

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Letter to a Young Farmer by Gene Logsdon Pdf

"In his final book of essays - completed just weeks before he died - self-described "contrary farmer" Gene Logsdon addresses the next generation of small-scale "garden farmers" seeking a better way of life."--

Author : Johannes Gillhoff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015050157281

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Letters of a German American Farmer by Johannes Gillhoff Pdf

"Early in the twentieth century, drawing upon the hundreds of letters written to his father by immigrants from Mecklenburg, Germany, Johannes Gillhoff created the archetypal character of Jürnjakob Swehn: the upright, honest mench who personified the German immigrant. This farmer-hero--planting and harvesting his Iowa acres, joking with his neighbors during the snowy winters, building a church with his own hands--proved so popular with the German public that a million copies of Jürnjakob Swehn der Amerikafahrer are in print. Now for the first time this wise and endearing book is available in English." -- Page [4] cover.

Author : John Dickinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1774
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:69015000047916

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Letters from a Farmer, in Pennsylvania by John Dickinson Pdf

Author : Caroline Henderson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806187945

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Letters from the Dust Bowl by Caroline Henderson Pdf

In May 1936 Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace wrote to Caroline Henderson to praise her contributions to American "understanding of some of our farm problems." His comments reflected the national attention aroused by Henderson’s articles, which had been published in Atlantic Monthly since 1931. Even today, Henderson’s articles are frequently cited for her vivid descriptions of the dust storms that ravaged the Plains. Caroline Henderson was a Mount Holyoke graduate who moved to Oklahoma’s panhandle to homestead and teach in 1907. This collection of Henderson’s letters and articles published from 1908 to1966 presents an intimate portrait of a woman’s life in the Great Plains. Her writing mirrors her love of the land and the literature that sustained her as she struggled for survival. Alvin O. Turner has collected and edited Henderson’s published materials together with her private correspondence. Accompanying biographical sketch, chapter introductions, and annotations provide details on Henderson’s life and context for her frequent literary allusions and comments on contemporary issues.

Author : Dan Needles
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780307360847

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Wingfield's World by Dan Needles Pdf

Walt Wingfield, the character beloved by thousands in every part of the country, is back with a new and complete book, with a new introduction from the author. Walt Wingfield is a Bay Street stockbroker who quits his job and buys a hundred-acre farm in Persephone Township, Ontario. In a series of letters to the editor of the local newspaper, Walt chronicles his modest successes and spectacular defeats in an age when farming has become difficult for farmers old and new. Dan Needles' rich and charming rural neighbourhood may be difficult to find on a map but it is very close to the Canadian soul. Including a new introduction from Dan Needles, the writer who brought this marvellous world to life 27 years ago, and all your favourite mishaps, triumphs and eccentric neighbours Wingfield's World is the full story of one man's attempt to embrace a less complicated world and how he ends up with more complication and drama, and more love and richness than he could have imagined.

Author : Teresa Opheim
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781609384531

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The Future of Family Farms by Teresa Opheim Pdf

A monumental transfer of farmland is occurring in the United States. The average American farmer is fifty-eight years old, and the 40 percent of farmland owners who lease their land to others are even older: sixty-six on average. Five times as many farmers are over sixty-five as are under thirty-five. What will happen to this land? Who will own it? What if one child wants to farm but can't afford to buy out the nonfarming siblings? What if keeping the farm in the family means foregoing the significant profits that could be earned from selling it? These sometimes painful and divisive questions confront many farmers and farmland owners today. How they answer them will shape their families and the land for generations to come. The Farm Legacy Letters project, developed by the member-driven nonprofit Practical Farmers of Iowa, is designed to help farmers and farmland owners think about their farm’s future and talk about it with their families. An essential complement to handbooks on business succession, this book gathers the letters and stories of midwestern families about the land they cherish—how they acquired it, what they treasure most about it, and their hopes for its future. Some of the writers descend from families who have owned a particular patch of the earth since the 1800s, while others became farmland owners more recently—one as recently as 2015. Some are no longer farmland owners at all, because—after careful thought about what mattered most to them—they sold their land to the next generation of farmers. All of these writers hope that, by sharing their farmland legacies, they will encourage others to ponder and then write about the histories, accomplishments, challenges, and hopes for their farmland for the generations who come after they are gone.

Author : John Rozier
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0820310425

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The Granite Farm Letters by John Rozier Pdf

Gathers letters between Edgeworth Byrd, a Confederate soldier, planter, and slave owner, and his wife and daughter

Author : Jerry Apps
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781938486081

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Letters from Hillside Farm by Jerry Apps Pdf

Told through the correspondence between the young narrator and his grandmother, Letters from Hillside Farm provides a glimpse of life during the Great Depression of the 1930's. Young George moves from Cleveland, Ohio to a farm in central Wisconsin. He shares his discovery of rural life and the realities of tough times with his Grandmother Strunkmeyer.

Author : Hector St. Joh Crevecoeur
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781425020736

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Letters from an American Farmer EasyRead by Hector St. Joh Crevecoeur Pdf

Consummate narrative essays made Crevecoeur a celebrated writer in America. In the epistles he has rendered an ideal American society with egalitarianism and free-will. Remarkable for the beauty of style in depiction of American navet and simple standard of living, it shows the approval of the religious multiplicity created by ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Fascinating!

Author : Elizabeth Emerson
Publisher : Bright Leaf
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1625346174

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Letters from Red Farm by Elizabeth Emerson Pdf

In 1888, young Helen Keller traveled to Boston with her teacher, Annie Sullivan, where they met a man who would change her life: Boston Transcript columnist and editor, Joseph Edgar Chamberlin. Keller would go on to spend weekends and holidays at Red Farm, the Chamberlin home in Wrentham, Massachusetts, and eventually lived there for a year when she was sixteen. Informed by previously unpublished letters and extensive research, this engaging biography brings the past to life. We see Keller transformed into a social activist in the boisterous atmosphere of Red Farm, where writers, artists, and reformers of the day congregated.

Author : James Haywood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : NLS:V000591643

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Letters to Farmers by James Haywood Pdf

Author : Brent Olson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1886513430

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Letters from a Peasant by Brent Olson Pdf

Author : Victor Davis Hanson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 9780684845012

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The Land was Everything by Victor Davis Hanson Pdf

Before storms that can destroy his crops in an instant, the farmer stands implacable. To fluctuations in temperature that can deprive his children of their future, the farmer pays no heed. Every day the elements remind him that his future is secure only through constant effort. Like the creepers and crawlers he seeks to eradicate, the farmer toils away in the lush anonymity of his grid of vines, his tradition one of impervious resolve.

Author : Gene Logsdon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Gardening
ISBN : UCSC:32106017217800

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The Contrary Farmer by Gene Logsdon Pdf

Offers the practical advice of a manual for the cottage farmer as well as meditation in praise of work and pleasure.