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The Seasons On Henry's Farm: A Year Of Food And Life On A Sustainable Farm (2009)

by Terra Brockman(Favorite Author)

4.01 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1572841036 (ISBN13: 9781572841031)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Agate Surrey

review 1: Any one with even a minimal interest in organic food and how it reaches our kitchens, how it is grown and by whom , will truly enjoy reading this book by Terra Brockman. With her family on three farms they grow lots and lots of fruits and vegetables for a local CSA and for a farmers's market in the Chicago area. With a sure and wonderful voice, Terra takes the reader through a year of planting and harvesting.
review 2: This book has been one of the most pleasing things I've read in quite some time. Taken from a weekly farm notes newsletter emailed to customers and friends, it is a book of reflections on farming, on food, on care for the earth, and on family. Structured around the seasons of the farm, we vicariously experience the constant balancing act of wor... moreking with, around and in all types of weather, soil conditions, pests, and the other vagaries of sustainable farming. The labor-intensive nature of sustainable farming is a near-constant, yet the camaraderie of this community of extended family, complementary farms (the sister who farms fruit and herbs, a few miles from Henry's basis in vegetables, of all kinds, the parents dairy farm), the interns and farmhands are quite evident. Above all, it seems to me that the strength of this book is the personal commitment, of the author and the entire extended family/community, to their joint enterprise, and to each other. It comes through with depth and clarity, in the words of each, and in their stories. This is a truly remarkable book. less

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