The Farm Life

The Farm Life
Author: Elizabeth Spurr
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: Colors
ISBN: 9780823417773

Preschoolers will have plenty of fun while learning about numbers, colors, and animals.

Farmlife

Farmlife
Author: Gestalten
Publisher: Gestalten
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2018-02-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9783899559187

Fresh eggs. Grandmother's pickling jars. Backyard orchards Meet new farmers, learn how they grow food, and join the movement preparing their favorite dishes with farm fresh ingredients.

Life on a Crop Farm

Life on a Crop Farm
Author: Judy Wolfman
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2001-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1575052709

How big can a pumpkin grow? When is the best time to plant corn? Melissa Lehman knows. She lives on a crop farm and tells readers about the fun, and work, that goes into planting, growing, picking, and selling crops.

A Family Farm

A Family Farm
Author: Robert L. Switzer
Publisher: Center for American Places
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Dairy farms
ISBN: 9781935195344

Switzer's memoir covers four generations of life on the family farm in Illinois. The tale is enhanced with photographs plus watercolors and woodblock prints by the author's wife and son. Frank E. Barmore adds information about the nineteenth-century history of this family farm, the Barmore family, and the settling of that area of Illinois.

A Farmer's Life for Me

A Farmer's Life for Me
Author: Jan Dobbins
Publisher: Barefoot Books
Total Pages: 27
Release: 2018-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1782856722

A busy family and their friends spend a day working and playing on the farm. From milking the cows in the morning to closing the gate at night, learn about a day in the life of a farming family. Enhanced CD includes video animation and audio singalong.

The Dirty Life

The Dirty Life
Author: Kristin Kimball
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2011-04-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1416551611

After interviewing a young farmer, writer Kristen Kimball gave up her urban lifestyle to begin a farm with her interviewee near Lake Champlain in northern New York.

Summer on the Farm

Summer on the Farm
Author: Elva Hurst
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2014
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0736960902

Eleven-year-old Elva has a very busy summer splashing in the creek, enjoying two family weddings, going to a fair, joining in hymn sings with other Mennonite youth, and helping prepare for school to begin anew.

The Farm That Feeds Us

The Farm That Feeds Us
Author: Nancy Castaldo
Publisher: words & pictures
Total Pages: 83
Release: 2020-05-19
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0711242534

Where does our food come from? What role do farms play? What’s it like to be a farmer? In this charmingly illustrated book, follow a farm throughout the year to discover how the farmer grows fresh and tasty food for us to eat in a sustainable and natural way. Explore the workings of a small-scale, organic family farm and experience the rhythm of farm life. In the spring, visit the chicken coop, till the fields, and tour the farm machinery. When summer comes, plant corn, meet the pollinators, and head to the county fair. In the fall, make pies and preserves, harvest pumpkins, and put the fields to sleep. Winter activities include trimming and pruning the orchard, seed shopping, and baking bread. To conclude your year on the farm, learn what you can do to support the farmers who pick our carrots and raise the cows for our milk. A glossary defines key sustainable farming terms. Through this colorful and intimate look at life on a small-scale farm, children will learn not only how the farm feeds us, but how the farmer must feed and care for the farm.

Living the Farm Sanctuary Life

Living the Farm Sanctuary Life
Author: Gene Baur
Publisher: Rodale Books
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2015-04-07
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1623364906

Winner of a Books for a Better Life Award! Gene Baur, the cofounder and president of Farm Sanctuary, the nation's leading farm animal protection organization, knows that the key to happiness lies in aligning your beliefs with your actions. In this definitive vegan and animal-friendly lifestyle guide, he and Gene Stone, author of Forks Over Knives, explore the deeply transformative experience of visiting the sanctuary and its profound effects on people's lives. The book covers the basic tenets of Farm Sanctuary life—such as eating in harmony with your values, connecting with nature wherever you are, and reducing stress—and offers readers simple ways to incorporate these principles into their lives. Living the Farm Sanctuary Life also teaches readers how to cook and eat the Farm Sanctuary way, with 100 extraordinarily delicious recipes selected by some of the organization's greatest fans—chefs and celebrities such as Chef AJ, Chloe Coscarelli, Emily Deschanel, and Moby. Coupled with heartwarming stories of the animals that Farm Sanctuary has saved over the years, as well as advice and ideas from some of the organization's biggest supporters, Living the Farm Sanctuary Life is an inspiring, practical book for readers looking to improve their whole lives and the lives of those around them—both two- and four-legged.

Farm for Life

Farm for Life
Author: Tangaroa Walker
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2021-02-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0143775715

The awesomely inspiring true story of how one kid turned his life around through farming - and how what he learned can help anyone. Tangaroa Walker never read a book in his life and only went to school to play rugby. His early years were pretty rough. Adopted twice, he went to six different schools by the time he was six. Today, he is a true community and industry leader, running a successful dairy farm in Southland, NZ and reaching millions as the much-loved face of Farm4Life with his practical, inspiring, often hilarious videos covering everything from cow farming to goal-setting; fishing to family life; management to mental health. This is the story of how he did it - the good and the bad times, and all the lessons learned along the way. As his fans know, T can be counted on for practical, honest advice that anyone can use to set their own goals, stand up and stand out in business or in life, and he shares it here with heart, humour and wicked honesty.