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3) On the farm
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Rhyming text and woodcut and watercolor illustrations introduce the animals found on a family farm.
4) Birnam Wood
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood. An undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic gathering of friends, this activist collective plants crops wherever no one will notice: on the sides of roads, in forgotten parks, and neglected backyards. For years, the group has struggled to break even. Then Mira stumbles on an answer, a way to finally set the group up for the long term: a landslide...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Mary Frances "Frankie" Lombard is fiercely in love with her family's sprawling apple orchard and the tangled web of family members who inhabit it. Content to spend her days planning capers with her brother William, competing with her brainy cousin Amanda, and expertly tending the orchard with her father, Frankie desires nothing more than for the rhythm of life to continue undisturbed. But she cannot help being haunted by the historical fact that...
Author
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of "Still life with bread crumbs." This story begins in the 1960s, and explores how Mimi Miller comes of age, over and over again. As the years go by, the unthinkable starts to seem inevitable. Anna Quindlen's novel takes us through the changing eras of Mimi and her family, as secrets are revealed, and the heartbreaks of growing up and falling in love with the wrong man are overcome.
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
256p. 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A guide to raising chickens, covering general biology, health, food, breed selection, how to cook the birds, and terms such as "organic" and "free range," and discusses how to show chickens for prizes, with full-color photographs.
8) How kind!
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2004, c2002
Edition
1st U.S. board book ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Hen gives Pig an egg, she sets off a chain of events that brings kindness to all of the animals on the farm. On board pages.
Author
Publisher
Silver Print Press
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In a beautiful companion volume to his classic Vermont People and People of the Great Plains, Peter Millers VERMONT FARM WOMEN puts faces and stories to these statistics and shows that this small rural state is setting a national trend. Within the group of forty-four Vermont farm women profiled in these pages, tremendous variety exists among the crops they grow and harvest, the animals they breed and raise, and the products they create. Yet all...
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The only hardcover edition of Jane Smiley's most famous novel--King Lear on an Iowa farm--which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992. With a new introduction. This powerful twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare's King Lear centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who decides to divide his farm among his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she is cut out of his will, which sets in motion a chain of events that brings dark truths to light. Ambitiously...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
631 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kelly Murphy's life as a tulip farmer is pretty routine--up at dawn, off to work, lather, rinse, repeat. But everything changes one sun-washed summer with two dramatic homecomings: Griffith Burnett--Tulpen Crossing's prodigal son, who's set his sights on Kelly--and Olivia, her beautiful, wayward and, as far as Kelly is concerned, unwelcome sister. Tempted by Griffith, annoyed by Olivia, Kelly is overwhelmed by the secrets that were so easy to keep...
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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 Cafe, has a very special meal in mind--and, of course, all the farmers show up at the cafe to enjoy the results of their hard work"--
Author
Publisher
Vermont Folklife Center
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
233 p. : ill. ; 22 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1790, about 90% of Vermonters lived on and earned at least part of their livelihood from farming. In 2009, about 1% of the state's population lived on Vermont's 1,050 dairy farms. As historians have noted, America was born in the country and has moved to the city. By our breakfast, dairy farmers have put in half a day's work. By noon, many have logged an eight-hour day. By nightfall, they have often added another eight-hour day. Given the long...
16) Farm
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 25 x 30 cm.
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
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
229 p. 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1836, Henry Lester moved his family from the Vermont hills to better land on the valley floor north of Rutland, beginning a saga six generations on a farm, which this book portrays and explores with an affectionate but critical eye. What gives the book its distinctive charm is its vivid evocation of a way of life: the beloved grandmother keeping house both as a shelter and as a temple of the spirit; the uncles sowing and harvesting, raising and...
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