Once Upon a Time

Once Upon a Time
Author: Eric Sloane
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0486444112

This nostalgic text brims with gentle philosophies and descriptions of how we used to live — self-sufficiently — on land, in homes, and among things built by hand. The author's charming illustrations celebrate our heritage and the spirit that nurtured it, but also recall the vanished joys of America's pioneer past. 44 line illustrations.

Once Upon a Farm

Once Upon a Farm
Author: Rory Feek
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2018-06-19
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 078521674X

National Bestseller Sometimes it’s not only what we plant but where we’re planted. Now raising their four-year-old daughter, Indiana, alone, after Joey’s passing, Rory Feek digs deeper into the soil of his life and the unusual choices he and his wife, Joey, made together and the ones he’s making now to lead his family into the future. When Rory Feek and his older daughters moved into a run-down farmhouse almost twenty years ago, he had no idea of the almost fairy-tale love story that was going to unfold on that small piece of Tennessee land . . . and the lessons he and his family would learn along the way. Now two years after Joey’s passing, as Rory takes their four-year-old daughter Indiana’s hand and walks forward into an unknown future, he takes readers on his incredible journey from heartbreak to hope and, ultimately, the kind of healing that comes only through faith. A raw and vulnerable look deeper into Rory’s heart, Once Upon a Farm is filled with powerful stories of love, life, and hope and the insights that one extraordinary, ordinary man in bib overalls has gleamed along the way. As opposed to homesteading, this is instead a book on lifesteading as Rory learns to cultivate faith, love, and fatherhood on a small farm while doing everything, at times, but farming. With frequent stories of his and Joey’s years together, and how those guide his life today, Rory unpacks just what it means to be open to new experiences. “This isn’t a how-to book; it’s more of a how we, or more accurately, how He, God, planted us on a few acres of land and grew something bigger than Joey or I could have ever imagined.”

Once Upon a Farm

Once Upon a Farm
Author:
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781565547537

Describes each season of farm life experienced by the author on his farm in Hampton, Iowa during the 1920s and 1930s and illustrates seasonal farm work from spring plowing to fall harvesting.

Farming Once Upon a Time

Farming Once Upon a Time
Author: J.C. Allen & Son Rural Life Photo Service
Publisher: Concord Books
Total Pages: 159
Release: 1996
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN: 9780964342927

FARMING ONCE UPON A TIME. Contains 215 farm photographs taken in the American Midwest from 1912-1952. Photos are chosen from the wonderful collection of J. C. Allen & Son, West Lafayette, IN. Photo selection, writing & editing by Claude L. Brock & Thomas Budd, respected agricultural writers & leaders. A high-quality, coffee-table book, 160 pages, 8-1/2" x 11" horizontal format, printed on heavy coated paper to enhance photo reproduction. Hardbound, with a highly-designed, 3-color dust jacket. Photos are black/white & selected from the Allen archives, the largest farm photo library in the world. Exceptional photos of tractors, implements, people, planting & harvest scenes, horses, mules, farm animals & family scenes. J. C. Allen & Son took photographs with the old-style, large negative format Press Graflex camera, producing crystal clear photos & dramatic detail. This book is a joy to read & view, & a worthy addition to American history preservation. First edition, July, 1996. ISBN 0-9643429-2-8. Library of Congress 96-84463. Direct purchase. Concord Publishers, P.O. Box 991099, Louisville, KY 40269. 502-493-0178. Price $24.95, plus $4.50 shipping.

American Harvest

American Harvest
Author: Marie Mutsuki Mockett
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2020-04-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1644451166

An epic story of the American wheat harvest, the politics of food, and the culture of the Great Plains For over one hundred years, the Mockett family has owned a seven-thousand-acre wheat farm in the panhandle of Nebraska, where Marie Mutsuki Mockett’s father was raised. Mockett, who grew up in bohemian Carmel, California, with her father and her Japanese mother, knew little about farming when she inherited this land. Her father had all but forsworn it. In American Harvest, Mockett accompanies a group of evangelical Christian wheat harvesters through the heartland at the invitation of Eric Wolgemuth, the conservative farmer who has cut her family’s fields for decades. As Mockett follows Wolgemuth’s crew on the trail of ripening wheat from Texas to Idaho, they contemplate what Wolgemuth refers to as “the divide,” inadvertently peeling back layers of the American story to expose its contradictions and unhealed wounds. She joins the crew in the fields, attends church, and struggles to adapt to the rhythms of rural life, all the while continually reminded of her own status as a person who signals “not white,” but who people she encounters can’t quite categorize. American Harvest is an extraordinary evocation of the land and a thoughtful exploration of ingrained beliefs, from evangelical skepticism of evolution to cosmopolitan assumptions about food production and farming. With exquisite lyricism and humanity, this astonishing book attempts to reconcile competing versions of our national story.

Farm Mechanics ...

Farm Mechanics ...
Author: Bernard Lyman Johnson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1150
Release: 1921
Genre: Agricultural machinery
ISBN:

Farm

Farm
Author: Richard Rhodes
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1997-11-28
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780803289659

Describes the challenges and rewards faced by modern farms in the Midwest, and looks at the seasonal milestones of rural life

Mission-shaped and Rural

Mission-shaped and Rural
Author: Sally Gaze
Publisher: Church House Publishing
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2006
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780715140840

Using a mix of theological reflection, sociological analysis, case studies and personal experience, this book explores ways forward for mission in a rural context in both traditional and fresh expressions of church. It offers insights into issues facing rural England and explores the nature of mission with reference to the rural situation.

The Organic No-Till Farming Revolution

The Organic No-Till Farming Revolution
Author: Andrew Mefferd
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Total Pages: 661
Release: 2019-03-05
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1771422726

Learn how to use natural no-till systems to increase profitability, efficiency, carbon sequestration, and soil health on your small farm. The Organic No-Till Farming Revolution is the comprehensive farmer-developed roadmap showing how no-till lowers barriers to starting a small farm, reduces greenhouse gas emissions, increases efficiency and profitability, and promotes soil health. Farming without tilling has long been a goal of agriculture, yet tilling remains one of the most dominant paradigms; almost everyone does it. But tilling kills beneficial soil life, burns up organic matter, and releases carbon dioxide. If the ground could instead be prepared for planting without tilling, time and energy could be saved, soil organic matter increased, carbon sequestered, and dependence on machinery reduced. This hands-on manual offers: Why roller-crimper no-till methods don't work for most small farms A decision-making framework for the four no-till methods: occultation, solarization, organic mulches grown in place, and applied to beds Ideas for starting a no-till farm or transitioning a working farm A list of tools, supplies, and sources. This is the only manual of its kind, specifically written for natural and small-scale farmers who wish to expand or explore chemical-free, regenerative farming methods.