Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Arizona

This captivating memoir is a "startling testimony to the glories and sorrows of raising and harvesting plants and animals" (Anthony Doerr, best-selling author of All the Light We Cannot See), as an itinerant farmhand chronicles the wonders hidden within the ever-blooming seasons of life, death, and rebirth.

Pig Years catapults American nature writing into the 21st century, and has been hailed by Lydia Davis and Aimee Nezhukumatathil as "engrossing" and "a marvel." As a farmer in Upstate New York and Vermont, Ellyn Gaydos lives on the knife edge between loss and gain. Her debut memoir draws us into this precarious world, conjuring with stark simplicity the lifeblood of the farm: its livestock and stark full moons, the sharp cold days lives near to the land. Joy and tragedy are frequent bedfellows. Fields go barren and animals meet their end too soon, but then their bodies become food in a time-old human ritual. Seasonal hands are ground down by the hard work, but new relationships are formed, love blossoms and Gaydos yearns to become a mother. As winter's dark descends, Pig Ears draws us into a violent and gorgeous world where pigs are star-bright symbols of hope and beauty surfaces in the furrows, the sow, even in the slaughter.
 
In hardy, lyrical prose that recalls the agrarian writing of Annie Dillard and Wendell Berry, Gaydos asks us to bear witness to the work that sustains us all and to reconsider what we know of survival and what saves us. Pig Years is a rapturous reckoning of love, labor, and loss within a landscape given to flux.

Pig Years

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Adorable & colorful! #hardcover #boardbook #animals #farming #kids #toddlers #childrens #preschool #nonfiction

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Missouri

Baby Einstein 

Baby MacDonald on the Farm 

God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland

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.

InAmerican 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.

American Harvest

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#hardcover #countryliving #country #ruralliving #animals #farming #family

Vermont

And Other Lessons in Country Living

How to Walk a Pig

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

The Entrenpreneur's Guide to Selling What You Grow

Discover how easy and profitable it is to grow and sell vegetables, fruit, flowers, and livestock from your own backyard market garden.

Backyard Market Gardening

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Minnesota

FIRST EDITION #hardcover #johngrishmam #drama #firstedition  #secrets #comingofage #popularfiction #arkansas #farming

A Novel

A Painted House

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Finalist for the National Book Award, the Kirkus Prize, and the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Maryland

A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth

*Finalist for the National Book Award* *Finalist for the Kirkus Prize* *Instant New York Times Bestseller* *Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, New York Post, BuzzFeed, Shelf Awareness, Bustle, and Publishers Weekly* An essential read for our times: an eye-opening memoir of working-class poverty in America that will deepen our understanding of the ways in which class shapes our country and “a deeply humane memoir that crackles with clarifying insight”.* Sarah Smarsh was born a fifth generation Kansas wheat farmer on her paternal side, and the product of generations of teen mothers on her maternal side. Through her experiences growing up on a farm thirty miles west of Wichita, we are given a unique and essential look into the lives of poor and working class Americans living in the heartland. During Sarah’s turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, she enjoyed the freedom of a country childhood, but observed the painful challenges of the poverty around her; untreated medical conditions for lack of insurance or consistent care, unsafe job conditions, abusive relationships, and limited resources and information that would provide for the upward mobility that is the American Dream. By telling the story of her life and the lives of the people she loves with clarity and precision but without judgement, Smarsh challenges us to look more closely at the class divide in our country. Beautifully written, in a distinctive voice, Heartland combines personal narrative with powerful analysis and cultural commentary, challenging the myths about people thought to be less because they earn less. “Heartland is one of a growing number of important works—including Matthew Desmond’s Evicted and Amy Goldstein’s Janesville—that together merit their own section in nonfiction aisles across the country: America’s postindustrial decline...Smarsh shows how the false promise of the ‘American dream’ was used to subjugate the poor. It’s a powerful mantra” *(The New York Times Book Review).

Heartland

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Dust Jacket has damage, inside front cover there is sticker removal damage. The actual book is in pristine condition. 

Michigan

A collection of the rediscovered writings of Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Little House in the Ozarks

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Light general wear. Has one damaged corner, the back top, as pictured. Otherwise excellent condition. 

 #hardcover #cows #veterinary #farm #farming #reference #cattle #farmreference #farmer #vet 

Colorado

Recognition and Treatment

Cattle Ailments

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#paperback #pigs #farming #homestead #homesteading #animals #kellogg #orangebook

Maine

Everything the home hog-raiser needs to know, with innovative ideas and insights gained through years of experience.

Raising Pigs Successfully

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Some foxing on page edges, dust jacket a bit worn, otherwise like new

The Emotional World of Farm Animals

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson’s groundbreaking bestseller,When Elephants Weep, was the first book since Darwin’s time to explore emotions in the animal kingdom, particularly from animals in the wild. Now, he focuses exclusively on the contained world of the farm animal, revealing startling, irrefutable evidence that barnyard creatures have feelings too, even consciousness. Weaving history, literature, anecdotes, scientific studies, and Masson’s own vivid experiences observing pigs, cows, sheep, goats, and chickens over the course of five years, this important book at last gives voice, meaning, and dignity to these gentle beasts that are bred to be milked, shorn, butchered, and eaten. Can we ever know what makes an animal happy? Many animal behaviorists say no. But Jeffrey Masson has a different view: An animal is happy if it can live according to its own nature. Farm animals suffer greatly in this regard. Chickens, for instance, like to perch in trees at night, to avoid predators and to nestle with friends. The obvious conclusion: They cannot be happy when confined twenty to a cage. From field and barn, to pen and coop, Masson bears witness to the emotions and intelligence of these remarkable farm animals, each unique with distinct qualities. Curious, intelligent, self-reliant–many will find it hard to believe that these attributes describe a pig. In fact, there is much that humans share with pigs. They dream, know their names, and can see colors. Mother cows mourn the loss of their calves when their babies are taken away to slaughter. Given a choice between food that is nutritious or lacking in minerals, sheep will select the former, balancing their diet and correcting the deficiency. Goats display quite a sense of humor, dignity, and fearlessness (Indian goats have been known to kill leopards). Chickens are naturally sociable–they will gather around a human companion and stand there serenely preening themselves or sit quietly on the ground beside someone they trust. For far too long farm animals have been denigrated and treated merely as creatures of instinct rather than as sentient beings. Shattering the abhorrent myth of the “dumb animal without feelings,” Jeffrey Masson has written a revolutionary book that is sure to stirhumanemotions far and wide.

The Pig Who Sang to the Moon

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#paperback #fiction #horses #kids #childrens #farming #beginnerchapterbook #elementary #gradeschool #bigapplebarn 

Big Apple Barn

Happy Go Lucky, a school pony, is quickly learning his way around Big Apple Barn and when he discovers that every rider is different, he plans to find the perfect rider for him.

Happy's Big Plan

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#paperback #farming #corporateamerica #foodsupply #meat

How Corporate Farming Has Endangered America's Food Supply

The director of the Sierra Club identifies potential health hazards linked to current practices within the American meat production industry, citing the economic consequences of today's agribusiness while presenting an argument for the support of local farmers. Reprint.

The Meat You Eat

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Funny little book with charismatic character! Like new condition except a few tiny blemishes along cover edges. #paperback #travel #kids #farming #children #fiction #elementary #juvenilefiction #funny #learning

When I First Came to this Land

Oregon

An alphabet book of woodcuts featuring activities and objects associated with New England farm life, from Apple, Barn, Cow through aX, Yawn, Zinnia.

A Farmer's Alphabet

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#paperback #Weather #Heat #Humor #HeatWave #Farming #Southern #Children’s #Fiction￼ box 23

Texas

What happens when a heat wave descends on the family farm? Why, the corn stalks turn into popcorn in the fields, flowers pluck themselves and hide under the porch, and the cows jump so much from the hot air that they churn their own milk into butter, that's what! In this delightful tall tale, illustrated by Scott Goto (Shooting Star, Shoeshine Whittaker), a young girl saves the day (and the farm) using her own ingenuity, every crow in Kansas, and a packet of lettuce seeds.

Heat Wave!

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A Life in the Country

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#paperback #leimbach #essays #vintagepaperback #farming #farmer #ohio #farmfamily

The author describes her experiences helping her husband to manage their Ohio farm and pokes fun at life on a farm

Harvest of Bittersweet

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#cookbook #paperback #gardening #farming #largefamily #homesteading #cookery 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A Cookbook for When Your Garden Explodes

A reissue of the unusual and classic cookbook with hundreds of savory and delectable recipes to help every gardener find ample ways to make use of the riches the garden provides.

Too Many Tomatoes, Squash, Beans, and Other Good Things

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#hardcover #fiction #appleseed #dystopia #environmental #fantasy #mattbell #sciencefiction #farming

California

"In the vein of Neal Stephenson and Jeff VanderMeer, an epic speculative novel from Young Lions Fiction Award-finalist Matt Bell, a ... book that explores climate change, manifest destiny, humanity's unchecked exploitation of natural resources, and the small but powerful magic contained within every single apple"--

Appleseed

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#paperback #nonfiction #food #animalvegetablemiracle #memoir #farming #farmtotable #cooking 

New Jersey

A Year of Food Life

Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life—vowing that, for one year, they’d only buy food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is an enthralling narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

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The Newman’s Own  organics: guide to a good life 

#paperback #nonfiction #food #animalvegetablemiracle #barbarakingsolver #memoir #charming #farming 

Ellyn Gaydos

Pig Years

Julie Aigner-Clark

Baby MacDonald on the Farm

Marie Mutsuki Mockett

American Harvest

Steven Coffman; Lyons Press Staff

How to Walk a Pig

Andy Lee & Patricia Foreman

Backyard Market Gardening

Ellyn Gaydos

Pig Years

John Grisham

A Painted House

Sarah Smarsh

Heartland

Laura Ingalls Wilder; Stephen W. Hines (Editor)

Little House in the Ozarks

Ed Straiton

Cattle Ailments

Kathleen Fisher

Raising Pigs Successfully

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

The Pig Who Sang to the Moon

Kristin Earhart; John Steven Gurney (Illustrator)

Happy's Big Plan

Ken Midkiff; Wendell Berry (Foreword by)

The Meat You Eat

Harriet Ziefert

When I First Came to this Land

Mary Azarian (Illustrator)

A Farmer's Alphabet

Helen Ketteman; Scott Goto (Illustrator)

Heat Wave!

Hutchison

A Life in the Country

Patricia P. Leimbach

Harvest of Bittersweet

Lois Landau

Too Many Tomatoes, Squash, Beans, and Other Good Things

Matt Bell

Appleseed

Barbara Kingsolver; Richard A. Houser (Illustrator); Steven L. Hopp; Camille Kingsolver

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

Nell Newman

The Newman’s Own organics: guide to a good life

Barbara Kingsolver; Richard A. Houser (Illustrator); Steven L. Hopp; Camille Kingsolver

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle