Good Husbandry
By: Kristin Kimball
4.23
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Kristin Kimball describes the delicious highs and sometimes excruciating lows of life on Essex Farm…
Want to Read $ 14.02"Farmers are professional hopers."-Kristin Kimball, Good Husbandry
"Everything ends. The natural order of things is immutable. Seed, flower, fruit, decline, death, decay. Seed. Each stage has its own drama and its own particular beauty. If you can see it, you can accept it. The parts are graceful, and so is the whole."-Kristin Kimball, Good Husbandry
"I suspected that most marriages were more complicated than couples tended to let on. That summer, it seemed like every week brought news of another pair in our community who were splitting up. They were all around our age, most with little kids, trying to run their own businesses in a small economy. The evidence of those breakups directly contradicted the rosy way relationships were portrayed on Facebook, in public. I began to believe that future generations would study how we represent our long-term partnerships, and call us on our lies, in the same way we look at the way the Victorians depicted sex and know that it simply wasn't like that, not behind closed doors or in the hayloft. We hide marital conflict with the same sense of decorum. We'd do more good if we were honest and set realistic expectations for what it's like in the long run."-Kristin Kimball, Good Husbandry
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1. Call the Nurse: True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle (The Country Nurse #1)
By: None , Claire Macdonald , Mary J. MacLeod
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Tired of the pace and noise of life near London and longing for a better place to raise their young… read more
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2. The Dry Divide (Little Britches, #7)
By: Ralph Moody , Tran Mawicke
4.33
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
4 July 1919 Nebraska. Ralph Moody "Bud" 20 is diabetic, down to last dime when put off a freight tr… read more
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3. The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
By: Wendell Berry
4.34
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Since its publication by Sierra Club Books in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized a… read more
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"The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character."-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
"If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too."-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
"If we removed the status and compensation from the destructive exploits we classify as “manly,"-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
"The specialists are profiting too well from the symptoms, evidently, to be concerned about cures—just as the myth of imminent cure (by some “breakthrough"-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
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5. Shaking the Nickel Bush (Little Britches, #6)
By: Ralph Moody
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
Skinny and suffering from diabetes, Ralph Moody is ordered by a Boston doctor to seek a more health… read more
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- nonfiction
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6. Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer
By: Novella Carpenter
3.47
Format: None pages,
"One of New York Times Top 10 Books of 2009" (Dwight Garner) "Captivating... By turns edgy, moving,… read more
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7. The New Farm: Our Ten Years on the Front Lines of the Good Food Revolution
By: None
2.50
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
The inspiring and sometimes hilarious story of a family that quit the rat race and left the city to… read more
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8. Made from Scratch: Discovering the Pleasures of a Handmade Life
By: Jenna Woginrich
3.97
Format: 179 pages, Hardcover
"Point is, it feels good to get dirty, work hard, and slow down."In a world of mass-produced food, … read more
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9. Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
By: Mildred Armstrong Kalish
4.75
Format: 2112 pages,
I tell of a time, a place, and a way of life long gone. For many years I have had the urge to descr… read more
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10. Barnheart: The Incurable Longing for a Farm of One's Own
By: Jenna Woginrich
3.23
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
With humor and poise, Jenna Woginrich describes her adventurous self-education in homesteading. Poi… read more
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11. Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
By: Michael Pollan
3.73
Format: 192 pages,
In his articles and in bestselling books such as The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan has establish… read more
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12. Horse of a Different Color: Reminiscences of a Kansas Drover (Little Britches, #8)
By: Ralph Moody
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
Horse of a Different Colorends the "roving days" of young Ralph Moody. His saga began on a Colorado… read more
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13. The Lifegiving Home: Creating a Place of Belonging and Becoming
By: Sally Clarkson , Sarah Clarkson
4.00
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
How to make home your family's favorite place to be . . . all year long. Does your home sometimes f… read more
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14. The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District
By: James Rebanks
4.18
Format: 578 pages, Hardcover
THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James … read more
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15. The Feast Nearby: How I lost my job, buried a marriage, and found my way by keeping chickens, foraging, preserving, bartering, and eating locally (all on $40 a week)
By: None
3.84
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Within a single week in 2009, food journalist Robin Mather found herself on the threshold of a divo… read more
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16. Good Husbandry
By: Kristin Kimball
4.23
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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"Farmers are professional hopers."-Kristin Kimball, Good Husbandry
"Everything ends. The natural order of things is immutable. Seed, flower, fruit, decline, death, decay. Seed. Each stage has its own drama and its own particular beauty. If you can see it, you can acc…"-Kristin Kimball, Good Husbandry
"I suspected that most marriages were more complicated than couples tended to let on. That summer, it seemed like every week brought news of another pair in our community who were splitting up. They w…"-Kristin Kimball, Good Husbandry
17. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
By: Barbara Kingsolver
4.05
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural lif… read more
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"This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market."-Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
"Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing."-Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
"When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke."-Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
"Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly."-Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
18. Old-Fashioned on Purpose: Cultivating a Slower, More Joyful Life
By: Jill Winger
4.42
Format: None pages, ebook
"In a world where so many of us are craving a life of simplicity and meaning, Old-Fashioned on Purp… read more
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19. The Rooted Life: Cultivating Health and Wholeness Through Growing Your Own Food
By: Justin Rhodes
4.31
Format: None pages, Audiobook
A permaculture expert and popular YouTube Homesteader shares the skills and the delights of becomin… read more
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20. We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto
By: Alice Waters
3.89
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
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"In the United States alone, about 30 to 40 percent of our entire food supply is wasted every year, according to estimates from the USDA. I find that particularly sad."-Alice Waters, We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto
"When all we care about is cheapness, we don't ask how long things will last or how well they are made--and in truth, we don't particularly care. Because when a product is cheap, it becomes disposable…"-Alice Waters, We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto
21. You Are My Sunshine: A Story of Love, Promises, and a Really Long Bike Ride (Sean of the South)
By: Sean Dietrich
4.28
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A laugh-out-loud funny true story of a loving relationship, a grand adventure, and a promise kept. … read more
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22. The Blue Zones American Kitchen: 100 Recipes to Live to 100
By: Dan Buettner
3.72
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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23. Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
By: James Rebanks
4.43
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
As a boy, James Rebanks's grandfather taught him to work the land the old way. Their family farm in… read more
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"There were profoundly important questions about the potential effects of each new technology that it was nobody's job to ask or answer. There was no mechanism for farmers or ecologists to judge wheth…"-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
"There is something about planting trees that feels good. If you have done it well, it will outlast you and leave the world a little richer and more beautiful because of your efforts. Planting a tree …"-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
"Agricultural education is still overwhelmingly about change and innovation, and "disruption," not what is sustainable and what will work in the long run. From the modernizing perspective, the student…"-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
24. America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled
By: Blythe Roberson
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
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"It sometimes feels like men feel the need to assert their dominance over nature. Rich white men, who have no problems, climb mountains to see what having problems feels like."-Blythe Roberson, America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled
25. Pig Years
By: Ellyn Gaydos
3.56
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
This captivating memoir is a "startling testimony to the glories and sorrows of raising and harvest… read more
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26. The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days
By: Helen Rebanks
3.89
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
A portrait of life at Helen Rebanks' Lake District farmhouse that beautifully captures the unsung w… read more
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27. Flat Broke with Two Goats
By: Jennifer McGaha
3.26
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Jennifer McGaha never expected to own a goat named Merle. Or to be setting Merle up on dates and na… read more
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"When I was growing up, my parents had created for my brother and me the perfect upper middle-class lifestyle. We had everything we needed, and most things we wanted. We took piano lessons. We went to…"-Jennifer McGaha, Flat Broke with Two Goats
"I realized that if someone told me right then that I could go back 10 years, have my old life back exactly as it was, a life where I never saw my husband, where our lives were always about becoming i…"-Jennifer McGaha, Flat Broke with Two Goats
28. Sliver of Truth
By: Lisa Unger
3.67
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
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- audiobook
"Many people believe that evil is the presence of something. I think it's the absence of something."-Lisa Unger, Sliver of Truth
"I couldn't bring myself to raise my eyes. His betrayal was so profound, so incomprehensible, that in that moment I was afraid I'd burst into flames if I looked at him."-Lisa Unger, Sliver of Truth
"I felt better after shopping, more normal. And more than that looked cool, which almost made up for being in mortal danger, an international fugitive, and a partial amnesiac."-Lisa Unger, Sliver of Truth
"I loved him so much. It didn't change all the reasons we couldn't be together, but it kept me returning to his body, kept my skin seeking his skin over and over again in the sad dance we did."-Lisa Unger, Sliver of Truth
29. The Rural Diaries: Love, Livestock, and Big Life Lessons Down on Mischief Farm
By: Hilarie Burton Morgan
4.42
Format: 272 pages, ebook
New York Times Bestseller The beloved actress and star of One Tree Hill, White Collar, and Lethal… read more
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"I want to push myself everyday, and everyday be intentional"-Hilarie Burton Morgan, The Rural Diaries: Love, Livestock, and Big Life Lessons Down on Mischief Farm
"When you have a miscarriage, there's no funeral. There's no right for your grief. You mourn alone, even when entirely surrounded by people."-Hilarie Burton Morgan, The Rural Diaries: Love, Livestock, and Big Life Lessons Down on Mischief Farm
"This s real, this is who I am. This is what matters. There is a moment of absolute freedom when you realize that the things that used to scare you have no power over you anymore. I had the freedom to…"-Hilarie Burton Morgan, The Rural Diaries: Love, Livestock, and Big Life Lessons Down on Mischief Farm
30. Plenty: A Memoir of Food and Family
By: Hannah Howard
3.72
Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition
A moving reflection on motherhood, friendship, and women making their mark on the world of food fro… read more
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31. The Opt-Out Family: How to Give Your Kids What Technology Can't
By: Erin Loechner
4.41
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Discover a new and hopeful path forward as you consider your family's approach to social media, scr… read more
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