Growing Up on a Minnesota Farm

Growing Up on a Minnesota Farm

Author: Beverly Jackson

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738518619

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With nearly 100 vintage images and personal stories, [this book] relives the era [1930-1970] of this major agricultural revolution and takes the reader on a journey that will define a time of momentous change.


Growing Up Country

Growing Up Country

Author: Carol Bodensteiner

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9780979799709

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In Growing Up Country: Memories of an Iowa Farm Girl, Carol Bodensteiner tells the stories of a happy childhood growing up on a family-owned dairy farm in the middle of America in the 1950s, a time when a family could make a good living on 180 acres.


Joel, Growing Up a Farm Man

Joel, Growing Up a Farm Man

Author: Patricia Demuth

Publisher: Dodd Mead

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13:

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Focuses on a thirteen-year-old boy who works on his family's farm, caring for livestock, harvesting hay, and preparing to manage the farm himself one day.


Running for the Hills

Running for the Hills

Author: Horatio Clare

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2008-03-11

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 0743274288

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Part memoir, part adventure story, and part study of the natural world, this is an evocative and vividly written memoir of a childhood on a remote sheep farm in Wales.


On the Farm, At the Market

On the Farm, At the Market

Author: G. Brian Karas

Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

Published: 2016-04-05

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 1250116511

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On the farm, workers pick vegetables, collect eggs, and make cheese. At the market the next day, the workers set up their stands and prepare for shoppers to arrive. Amy, the baker at the Busy Bee Café, has a very special meal in mind-and, of course, all the farmers show up at the café to enjoy the results of their hard work. This informative book introduces children to both local and urban greenmarkets and paints a warm picture of a strong, interconnected community.


Bet the Farm

Bet the Farm

Author: Beth Hoffman

Publisher: Island Press

Published: 2021-10-05

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 164283159X

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"Eloquent and detailed...It's hard to have hope, but the organized observations and plans of Hoffman and people like her give me some. Read her book -- and listen." -- Jane Smiley, The Washington Post In her late 40s, Beth Hoffman decided to upend her comfortable life as a professor and journalist to move to her husband's family ranch in Iowa--all for the dream of becoming a farmer. There was just one problem: money. Half of America's two million farms made less than $300 in 2019, and many struggle just to stay afloat. Bet the Farm chronicles this struggle through Beth's eyes. She must contend with her father-in-law, who is reluctant to hand over control of the land. Growing oats is good for the environment but ends up being very bad for the wallet. And finding somewhere, in the midst of COVID-19, to slaughter grass finished beef is a nightmare. If Beth can't make it, how can farmers who confront racism, lack access to land, or don't have other jobs to fall back on hack it? Bet the Farm is a first-hand account of the perils of farming today and a personal exploration of more just and sustainable ways of producing food.


Once Upon a Farm

Once Upon a Farm

Author:

Publisher: Pelican Publishing

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9781565547537

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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.


Anna

Anna

Author: Gill Davies

Publisher:

Published: 1998-01

Total Pages: 31

ISBN-13: 9781858545202

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In each of these poems, Gill Davies has captured a moment in childhood, a little spot in time, as Anna grows up with her brother Jack.


Growing Up

Growing Up

Author: Tom Fortney

Publisher: Trafford on Demand Pub

Published: 2010-05

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9781426929144

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Growing Up is about the formative years of four children who grew up on a dairy and tobacco farm in southwest Wisconsin in the 1930s and 1940s. They took their first innocent childhood steps in the security of a loving family. As they grew toward adolescence, the world was no longer a storybook land, as they had imagined in grade school, but a whole new world of different people and strange surroundings. It always seemed, though, as they grew from puberty to young adulthood, that what they learned in Sunday school and from their parents came to the surface when they were faced with making hard decisions in an adult world. The difference between right and wrong, instilled in them from earliest childhood, stayed with them all their lives. All parents want their children to have a better life than their own, and their parents did everything they could to convince them to get a more complete education. Tom did not go to college like his sister and brothers, but attended a vocational school in La Crosse, Wisconsin, where he learned auto mechanics and welding. After one year, he was drafted into the Army and served in Korea. The war had just ended, so he did not see battle. Come join this wonderful family on a trip down memory lane.


The Lean Farm Guide to Growing Vegetables

The Lean Farm Guide to Growing Vegetables

Author: Ben Hartman

Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1603586997

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At Clay Bottom Farm, author Ben Hartman and staff practice kaizen, or continuous improvement, cutting out more waste--of time, labor, space, money, and more--every year and aligning their organic production more tightly with customer demand. Applied alongside other lean principles originally developed by the Japanese auto industry, the end result has been increased profits and less work. In this field-guide companion to his award-winning first book, The Lean Farm, Hartman shows market vegetable growers in even more detail how Clay Bottom Farm implements lean thinking in every area of their work, including using kanbans, or replacement signals, to maximize land use; germination chambers to reduce defect waste; and right-sized machinery to save money and labor and increase efficiency. From finding land and assessing infrastructure needs to selling perfect produce at the farmers market, The Lean Farm Guide to Growing Vegetables digs deeper into specific, tested methods for waste-free farming that not only help farmers become more successful but make the work more enjoyable. These methods include: Using Japanese paper pot transplanters Building your own germinating chambers Leaning up your greenhouse Making and applying simple composts Using lean techniques for pest and weed control Creating Heijunka, or load-leveling calendars for efficient planning Farming is not static, and improvement requires constant change. The Lean Farm Guide to Growing Vegetables offers strategies for farmers to stay flexible and profitable even in the face of changing weather and markets. Much more than a simple exercise in cost-cutting, lean farming is about growing better, not cheaper, food--the food your customers want.