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Greenhorns: 50 Dispatches From The New Farmers' Movement (2000)

by Paula Manalo(Favorite Author)

4.06 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1603427724 (ISBN13: 9781603427722)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Storey Publishing

review 1: There were a lot of interesting points of view represented in this collection of essays, and a few memorable moments, but ultimately I fear that quite a few of the farmers featured are more excited about farming than they are about writing – as they should be. So, it’s a great resource if you’re looking to sample some of the better farm writers out there and maybe as a name recognition tool, but not so great as literary feat.
review 2: I learned of this book through Jenna Woginrich's blog where she chronicles her life on her own Cold Antler Farm in upstate New York. This book is filled with short essays from a variety of young and new farmers across the country, covering a range of topics and organized roughly by topic. Weather, vegetables, livestock, f... moreinances, physical work, and so on are all covered in honest, interesting, touching, and usually funny stories by many good writers. All of the stories were well written and edited well, which is not always the case with anthologies, so that was excellent.This book will give you a varied and vivid picture of the state of small farms in the USA as they stand today. It's not all bleak, although there are lots of challenges, and some of the more interesting stories were written by farmers who are not in the typically progressive states where the locavore movement has taken hold. I definitely feel that I learned a lot from reading this book, and while I'm not planning to farm any time soon, I am certainly going to continue my support of local farms and the farmers who grow food for me there. less

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