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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...
22) Farm
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Find out all about life on a farm.
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
The grandson of Virginia Woolf's poet paramour Vita Sackville-West traces his passionate efforts to restore his family's celebrated garden, an effort that included a reinstatement of a working farm to grow food for more than 200,000 annual visitors.
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
47 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follows the busy lives of Mr. and Mrs. Farmer on their farm throughout the seasons of the year, including turning over the soil in winter, caring for the baby animals born in spring, watering crops in the summer, and apples and wheat in fall.
Author
Series
It's never too late mystery volume 1
Publisher
Level Best Books/Historia
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
After ten years gone, Katelyn Took returns home in 1974 to find that the grandmother who raised her has been killed in the farm meadow. Gram’s will leaves Katelyn ownership of the now dilapidated farm, but includes a stipulation regarding seventeen cats. Then there’s the confused old woman still living in the farmhouse. Katelyn doesn’t want to stay, but the longer she does, the more drawn into finding Gram’s killer she becomes.
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Kids
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
24 pages : color ilustrations ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
This title introduces little readers to animals they might find on the farm. Complete with a More Facts section and bolded glossary terms. Readers will gather basic information about farm animals through easy-to-read, simple text alongside beautiful full-bleed photographs. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids is a division of ABDO.
32) Edible Insects
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
As entertaining as it is informative, NOVA explores headline-grabbing innovations and discoveries from our past, present and future, demystifying the science and technology along the way, while highlighting the human side of people "who make science happen."
33) Growing People
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (18 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
MA'O Organic Farms, in the historical marginalized rural community of Wai'anae, O'ahu, is the site of a groundbreaking youth leadership program that has impacted the lives of hundreds of Hawaiian youth. This short documentary provides an intimate look at the MA'O program through the stories of three of these youth, sisters Miki, U'ilani and Sheila Arasato. Winner of Best Documentary at the **Santa Cruz Film Festival**.
34) This Way of Life
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (85 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Against the stunning beauty of New Zealand's rugged Ruahine Mountains, Peter Karena and his wife Colleen raise their six children on the thin edge between freedom and disaster. As Peter hunts, trains wild horses, and struggles to instill in his kids the values of independence, courage and happiness, his escalating struggle with his own father has profound consequences on the entire Karena clan. THIS WAY OF LIFE captures the Karena's precipitous existence...
35) The organic grain grower: small-scale, holistic grain production for the home and market producer
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Pub
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
xvi, 431 p., [32] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
36) Small-space vegetable gardens: growing great edibles in containers, raised beds, and small plots
Author
Publisher
Timber Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
213 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Vegetable gardening is happening everywhere-in cities and suburbs, in farms and schools, in community gardens and at the White House. And it's happening in houses and apartments, on balconies and porches, and anywhere else people can find the space. 'Small-Space Vegetable Gardens' explains the basics of growing a bounty of edibles in a minimal amount of space. Andrea Bellamy, author of the award-winning blog 'Heavy Petal,' shares all the knowledge...
37) Jobs on a farm
Author
Series
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
24 p. : col. ill. ; 18 x 21 cm.
Language
English
38) Chirp
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
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.
40) Sheep in a jeep
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1986
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follows a group of hapless sheep as they careen through treacherous landscapes in a jeep.
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