This Farm Is a Family

This Farm Is a Family
Author: Dan McKernan
Publisher: Zonderkidz
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2022-04-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0310748135

In this adorable illustrated picture book for kids written by Dan McKernan (Saved by the Barn), the rescue farm animals at Barn Sanctuary decide to help a cow who is dealing with fear and anxiety in her new home. Children will learn the importance of friendship and compassion, as well as why it’s important to support others during hard times. Inside this book, kids ages 4-8 will discover: A positive message about friendship, kindness, and understanding others How to show compassion to others Ways of coping with difficult situations, including how to deal with fear and anxiety A page with information on Barn Sanctuary and their rescue efforts, with information on ways you can support the real-life animals featured in the book This Farm Is a Family follows a group of rescued farm animals who are living their best lives at Barn Sanctuary. Each one is eager to meet the newest arrival, Buttercup the cow, and show her all the fun things they can do together. But Buttercup doesn’t want to play--in fact, she doesn’t want anything to do with the other animals. So with a lot of love and understanding, the animals work together to help Buttercup discover she’s part of a new family and can leave her old fears behind. This Farm Is a Family is perfect for: Birthdays, Christmas, and Easter or Passover gifts, as well as back to school reading Children ages 4-8 who love farm animals and cuddly creatures Teaching young readers kindness and compassion, and that they can make a difference in the world Kids who are in a new school, new neighborhood, or new house

Gaining Ground

Gaining Ground
Author: Forrest Pritchard
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2013-05-21
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0762794380

With humor and pathos, Forrest Pritchard recounts his ambitious and often hilarious endeavors to save his family’s seventh-generation farm in the Shenandoah Valley. Through many a trial and error, he not only saves Smith Meadows from insolvency but turns it into a leading light in the sustainable, grass-fed, organic farm-to-market community. There is nothing young Farmer Pritchard won’t try. Whether he’s selling firewood and straw, raising free-range chickens and hogs, or acquiring a flock of Barbados Blackbelly sheep, his learning curve is steep and always entertaining. Pritchard’s world crackles with colorful local characters—farm hands, butchers, market managers, customers, fellow vendors, pet goats, policemen—bringing the story to warm, communal life. His most important ally, however, is his renegade father, who initially questions his son's career choice and eschews organic foods for the generic kinds that wreak havoc on his health. Soon after his father’s death, the farm becomes a recognized success and Pritchard must make a vital decision: to continue serving the local community or answer the exploding demand for his wares with lucrative Internet sales and shipping deals. More than a charming story of honest food cultivation and farmers’ markets, Gaining Ground tugs on the heartstrings, reconnecting us to the land and the many lives that feed us.

This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm

This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm
Author: Ted Genoways
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2017-09-19
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0393292584

Winner of the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize 2019 selection for the One Book One Nebraska and All Iowa state reading programs "Genoways gives the reader a kitchen-table view of the vagaries, complexities, and frustrations of modern farming…Insightful and empathetic." —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel The family farm lies at the heart of our national identity, and yet its future is in peril. Rick Hammond grew up on a farm, and for forty years he has raised cattle and crops on his wife’s fifth-generation homestead in Nebraska, in hopes of passing it on to their four children. But as the handoff nears, their family farm—and their entire way of life—are under siege on many fronts, from shifting trade policies, to encroaching pipelines, to climate change. Following the Hammonds from harvest to harvest, Ted Genoways explores the rapidly changing world of small, traditional farming operations. He creates a vivid, nuanced portrait of a radical new landscape and one family’s fight to preserve their legacy and the life they love.

Our Farm

Our Farm
Author: Michael J. Rosen
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0761385983

Told through the voices of the children, this inside view of life on their farm is authentic and sometimes surprising. Readers will learn about baling hay, tending cattle, work dogs, hunting, manure, and other activities on the Bennett farm, as well as some insights into the culture of living in a rural area.

City Family Farm Family

City Family Farm Family
Author: Roslyn Ross
Publisher:
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2021-09-29
Genre:
ISBN:

A family can't decide whether they want to live in a large, vibrant city or enjoy the peace and tranquility of farm life, so they decide to live in two places. They spend part of the year in Los Angeles and part of the year on a farm in a rural area of Nicaragua. The stories in this book are all true. They are part "slice of life" stories for children and part parenting anthropology -- the author makes some pretty non-mainstream parenting choices and make and effort to explain why. In City Family Farm Family the author welcomes the reader to take a look at what regular, day-to-day life is like in her family.

This Farm Is a Family

This Farm Is a Family
Author: Dan McKernan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780310747840

Barn Sanctuary is more than a home for the rescued farm animals, it's their family. But can they help the new arrival, Buttercup, overcome her grief and anxiety to accept her new home? Each of the Barn Sanctuary animals are eager to meet the newest arrival, Buttercup the cow, and show her all the fun things they can do together as a family. But Buttercup doesn't want to play--in fact, she doesn't want anything to do with the other animals. With a lot of love and understanding, the animals work together to help Buttercup discover she's part of a new family and can leave her old fears behind. A positive message about friendship, kindness, and understanding others, children everywhere will learn they're never alone in big life changes.

Farm Families on the Family Farm

Farm Families on the Family Farm
Author: Robyn Buttars
Publisher:
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2020-05-11
Genre:
ISBN:

Maggie gets to name the newborn calf. This calf is not just any calf-she is a descendent of Matilda, the first cow on the family farm. Maggie's family has cared for Matilda's family for 100 years. By looking back through her family history, Maggie finds the perfect name. A name that links her past with the present.

The Family Farm

The Family Farm
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
Publisher:
Total Pages: 190
Release: 1963
Genre: Family farms
ISBN: