Self-Recommenders for Farm Blogs

It's been a long time since I've been able to recommend some good new blogs.

This is because either people who have been recommended and added to the blog roll have not come back to me with their own recommendations OR because people who have recommended themselves have not come back to me on my emails about being added to the blog roll.

The whole idea of Farm Blogs is that good bloggers recommend even better ones that are not already listed.

So when someone asks to be listed (referred to as self-recommended) I send them an email - if I think their blog is good - asking them for some basic information and for their own recommendations of blogs they like apart from their own:

Dear X,

I'd love to feature your blog and add you to the blog roll but first I would

ask you to send me your favourite top five farm blogs that are not already

listed. The idea is that Farm Blogs grows organically with the good

recommending the better, who I then in turn contact and ask for their

recommendations. To be truthful, I'm often surprised at how many people want

to get featured but wont take the time to follow the basic principal of Farm

Blogs which is to recommend others, so hence I send this email.

All I'd need is:

a) permission to use five pics for a one time use on my blog when I write

about you.

b) a couple of paras about your farm and blog

c) your top five recommendations with the blogs full name; url; and a

sentence on why you like it. (Also their location.)

I then do five things:

a) a post about you

b) a post about your recommendations

c) list your recommendations and you

d) contact your recommendations and ask them to recommend.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

With kind regards,

Ian

I have to say I am surprised how many people want to be listed on Farm Blogs and take the time to contact me, but who do not take the time to write back to me.

Which is hardly in the spirit of the Organic Growth of Farm Blogs from Around the World.

If I have missed your replies (and I am sorting this out over Christmas and New Year) my apologies for not having followed up. Kate & Brendon @ Daylesford Organics - sorry: will do a post soon....

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Recently, I have received emails from the following bloggers asking to be listed on the blog roll and when they reply to the email aboveI will be happy to do a posting on them and on their recommendations, and add them to the blog roll.

tylerfarm@fairpoint.net

http://edensfarm.blogspot.com/

www.brookfarmalpaca.com

http://www.goldforestfarms.blogspot.com/

http://littlefarmbigworld.blogspot.com

http://www.farmblogs.org

Fiction etc. with agricultural themes

Thanks to Lyn in Tasmania, Australia for this:

Title:	Cumulated fiction index
Publisher:	London : Association of Assistant Librarians, 1960- [Newcastle-under-Lyme] : CDG Publishing, 2000-
Description:	v. ; 24 cm.
Numbering:	1945/1960-
Format:	Serial
Notes:	Each issue has individual compilers. 1945-1960 compiled by G.B. Cotton and Alan Glencross; 1960-1969 compiled by Raymond Ferguson Smith and Antony John Gordon; 1975-1984 compiled by Marilyn E. Hicken; 1980-1989 compiled by Marilyn E. Hicken. Cumulation of annual Fiction index.
Contents:	[v.1] 1945-1960 -- [v.2] 1960-1969 -- [v.3] 1970-1974 -- [v.4] 1975-1979 -- [v.5] 1980-1984 -- [v.6] 1980-1989 -- [v.7] 1990-1994 -- [v.8] 1995-1999
Subjects:	Fiction - Indexes English fiction - 20th century - Indexes English fiction - 20th century - Bibliography
Alternate title:	Fiction index 1975-1979
Other authors:	Glencross, Alan Cotton, G. B. (Gerald Brooks) Hicken, Mandy, 1936-

Less useful but you never know:

Title:	Novel openers: first sentences of 11,000 fictional works, topically arranged with subject, keyword, author, and title indexing / by Bruce L. Weaver
Author:	Weaver, Bruce L
Publisher:	Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c1995
Description:	ix, 986 p. ; 27 cm.
ISBN:	0786400501
Subjects:	Fiction - Indexes Openings (Rhetoric) - Indexes Quotations, English
Permalink:	Permalink to this item

Other authors ….. ?

George Eliot. Mill on the floss

Thomas Hardy’s novels

The death of Martin Guerre

Laurence Sterne. Tristram Shandy

Henry Fielding. Tom Jones

Tolstoy looks at farming practices of his time in many of his novels.

Chaucer - the Millers tale etc.

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I took these from Global Books in Print, not all fiction, but they may be of interest if you are into this subject.

From Castle Rackrent to Castle Dracula: Anglo-Irish Agrarian Fiction in the Nineteenth Century
Author:	Paul Cliffe
Publication Date:	December 2009
Publisher:	University of Buckingham Press, The
Country of Publication:	United Kingdom
Market:	United Kingdom
ISBN:	0-9560716-7-8
ISBN13:	978-0-9560716-7-5
Item Status:	Active Record (Available for Order)
Binding Format:	Trade Cloth
Pages:	250
Also Available Through:	Gardners Books Limited
Current Language:	English
Bowker Subjects:	ENGLISH LITERATURE
LC Class #:	PR468
Dewey #:	823.8099415
Synopsis/Annotation:	It is impossible to study literature in Ireland in the 19th century without also considering history, social issues, politics and religion. In particular absentee landlords appointed agents and/or middlemen - most of whom were corrupt - who persecuted tenants and squeezed every last penny from them (often entirely legally).

Title:	Everyone Had Cameras: Photography and Farmworkers in California, 1850-2000
Author:	Richard Steven Street
Publication Date:	November 2008
Publisher:	University of Minnesota Press
Country of Publication:	United States
Market:	Australia
ISBN:	0-8166-4966-9
ISBN13:	978-0-8166-4966-2
EAN:	9780816649662
Item Status:	Active Record (Readily Available)
Binding Format:	Trade Cloth
Edition:	illustrated
Pages:	720
Price:	$200.00 (AUD Retail) NewSouth Books (Distributor)
Also Available Through:	Baker & Taylor Books; Blackwell; Brodart Company
Current Language:	English
Audience:	General Adult
Bowker Subjects:	DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY PHOTOGRAPHY_HISTORY AGRICULTURAL LABORERS
General Subjects (BISAC):	PHOTOGRAPHY / History BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Agribusiness PHOTOGRAPHY / Photoessays & Documentaries
General Subjects (BIC):	PHOTOGRAPHY & PHOTOGRAPHS PHOTOGRAPHIC REPORTAGE HISTORY OF ART / ART & DESIGN STYLES AGRICULTURE & RELATED INDUSTRIES
LCCN:	2007-051643
LC Class #:	TR820.5.S8475 2008
Dewey #:	779/.99794053
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H):	17.78 x 25.4 x 3.81 cm.
Synopsis/Annotation:	Deftly weaving the remarkable diversity of field photography into this story of labour activism, 'Everyone Had Cameras' establishes a new history of California photography while chronicling the impact that this visual medium has has on a vast, dispossessed class of American workers.

	Title: Life on the Farm and Ranch: South Dakota Stories Contributor: South Dakota Humanities Council (Created by) Publication Date: September 2009 Publisher: South Dakota Humanities Council Country of Publication: United States Market: United States ISBN: 0-615-32429-0 ISBN13: 978-0-615-32429-6 Item Status: Active Record Binding Format: Trade Paper Price: $13.95 (USD Retail) (Publisher) Current Language: English Age Range: 12 to UP Bowker Subjects: AGRICULTURE LITERATURE_COLLECTIONS General Subjects (BISAC): LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General General Subjects (BIC): ANTHOLOGIES (NON-POETRY) AGRICULTURE & FARMING

Title:	Tomato Rhapsody: A Fable of Love, Lust and Forbidden Fruit
Author:	Adam Schell
Publication Date:	June 2009
Publisher:	Random House Publishing Group
Imprint:	Delacorte Press
Country of Publication:	United States
Market:	Canada
ISBN:	0-385-34333-7
ISBN13:	978-0-385-34333-6
EAN:	9780385343336
Item Status:	Active Record (Readily Available)
Binding Format:	Trade Cloth
Pages:	352
Price:	$28.95 (CND Retail) Random House of Canada, Limited (Distributor)
Current Language:	English
Audience:	General Adult
Bowker Subjects:	FICTION_ROMANCE_GENERAL ITALY_FICTION TOMATOES
General Subjects (BISAC):	TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / Agronomy / Crop Science FICTION / Romance / General
General Subjects (BIC):	AGRONOMY & CROP PRODUCTION ROMANCE
LCCN:	2008-051835
LC Class #:	PS3619.C347T66 2009
Dewey #:	813/.6
Physical Dimensions (W x L x H):	15.875 x 23.495 x 3.048 cm. .522 kg.
Synopsis/Annotation:	[A] delectable debut.... Schell displays the finesse of a master chef as he spices up the story with a delicious array of humorous subplots.Booklist If only every debut novel arrived with such spirit. USA Today The almost-true tale of how the tomato came to 16th century Italy and the forbidden love between Davido, a Jewish tomato farmer, and Mari, a beautiful Catholic girl. But it's not only Davido and Mari who have secrets of the heart. Everyone around them yearns for something--from Davido's grandfather, who tenderly cultivates the tomato plant he stole on his voyages with Columbus, to Mari's villainous stepfather, whose eye is trained on his stepdaughter's virginity and his neighbor's land. Caught in the midst of these passions and machinations is a village full of eccentrics who speak in rhyme, celebrate the Feast of the Drunken Saint, and live a life untouched by the passage of time. The schemes and dreams of these men and women are about to change as what is forbidden becomes too delicious to resist. Tradition, religion, and good taste collide in a story about the courage to pursue love and tomato sauce at all costs. A village in Tuscany is the setting for this joyous debuta novel that defies all our expectations as it puts a fresh, clever, captivating spin on the age-old tale of forbidden love. Rich in literary delights, filled with spectacular wordplay, and rife with the bawdy humor of Shakespeares comedies,Tomato Rhapsodyis the almost-true tale of how the tomato came to Italyat once a brilliantly inventive fable of love, lust, and longing, and a dazzling feast for the imagination. This is a story born from lovea forbidden lovebetween Davido, anEbreotomato farmer, and Mari, a beautiful Catholic girl.But its not only Davido and Mari who have secrets of the heart. Everyone around them yearns for somethingfrom Davidos grandfather, who tenderly cultivates the tomato plant he stole on his voyages with Columbus, to Maris villainous stepfather, whose eye is trained on his stepdaughters virginity and his neighbors land. Caught in the midst of these passions and machinations is a village full of eccentrics who speak in rhyme, celebrate the Feast of the Drunken Saint, and live a life untouched by the passage of time. The schemes and dreams of these men and women are about to change as what is forbidden becomes too delicious to resist. Tradition, religion, and good taste collide unforgettably in a story about the courage to pursue love and tomato sauce at all costs. [A] delectable debut.... Schell displays the finesse of a master chef as he spices up the story with a delicious array of humorous subplots.Booklist

Title: Spring's Edge: A Ranch Wife's Chronicles Author: Laurie Wagner Buyer Laurie Wagner Buyer Publication Date: July 2008 Publisher: University of New Mexico Press Country of Publication: United States Market: Australia ISBN: 0-8263-4391-0 ISBN13: 978-0-8263-4391-8 EAN: 9780826343918 Item Status: Active Record (Readily Available) Binding Format: Trade Paper Edition: illustrated Pages: 272 Price: $41.95 (AUD Retail) Inbooks (Distributor) Also Available Through: Alibris ; Brodart Company; Powells.com Current Language: English Audience: General Adult Bowker Subjects: COLORADO_SOCIAL LIFE AND CUSTOMS POETS_BIOGRAPHY RANCH LIFE RANCHERS UNITED STATES_INTELLECTUAL LIFE AUTHORS, AMERICAN General Subjects (BISAC): HISTORY / United States / General SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General General Subjects (BIC): LITERATURE: HISTORY & CRITICISM_USA BIOGRAPHY: LITERARY HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS_USA SOCIOLOGY: CUSTOMS & TRADITIONS RURAL COMMUNITIES AGRICULTURE & FARMING LCCN: 2007-040976 LC Class #: PS3552.U8944Z474 Dewey #: 811/.54 B Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 15.24 x 23.114 x 1.524 cm. .38 kg. Synopsis/Annotation: "Spring's Edge" reflects life during one season on the modern-day Colorado cattle ranch Laurie Buyer once called home. Her diary recounts the day-to-day toil and the challenge of trying to find time to write while continuing to help with outdoor chores, cooking, cleaning, balancing the books, and working for a neighboring ranch.Chronicling a time of deep personal change, Buyer struggles with her role as a ranch wife, faces the diminishing vitality of an agricultural way of life, and nurses her father through a terminal illness. Buyer tries to bridge the gap between the rural world she cherishes and the inevitable encroachment of urban sprawl. Meanwhile, her writing of landscape and weather, livestock and wildlife, loneliness and intimacy capture the innate rhythms of relationships, the resilience of love, and the astonishing beauty of life on the land. Jacket Description. "Spring's Edge reflects life during one season on the modern-day Colorado cattle ranch Laurie Buyer once called home. Her diary recounts the day-to-day toil and the challenge of trying to find time to write while continuing to help with outdoor chores, cooking, cleaning, balancing the books, and working for a neighboring ranch."--BOOK JACKET.

Title: Memoirs of a Breton Peasant, 1834-1905 Author: Jean-Marie Deguignet Linda Asher Publication Date: February 2008 Publisher: Seven Stories Press Country of Publication: United States Market: United Kingdom ISBN: 1-58322-616-8 ISBN13: 978-1-58322-616-2 EAN: 9781583226162 Item Status: Active Record (Readily Available) Binding Format: Trade Cloth Edition: illustrated Pages: 488 Price: £17.99 (GBP Retail) Turnaround Publisher Services Limited (Distributor) Also Available Through: Brodart Company; Gardners Books Limited; NACSCORP, Incorporated; Raincoast Book Distribution Current Language: English Original Language: French Audience: General Adult Bowker Subjects: PEASANTRY_FRANCE POOR_FRANCE SOLDIERS FRANCE_RURAL CONDITIONS General Subjects (BISAC): SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military General Subjects (BIC): POVERTY & UNEMPLOYMENT BIOGRAPHY: HISTORICAL, POLITICAL & MILITARY MILITARY HISTORY RURAL COMMUNITIES LCCN: 2003-020061 LC Class #: HD1536.F8D39713 2004 Dewey #: 305.5/633/092 B Physical Dimensions (W x L x H): 16.104 x 23.368 x 3.454 cm. .75 kg. Synopsis/Annotation: Memoirs of A Breton Peasant combines the discovery of a fascinating document of nineteenth-century history with an extraordinary life story. As lively as an adventure novel, the account bristles with the curiosity of an alert, opinionated autodidact from the very lowest level of peasant society, as Jean-Marie Deguignet moves through the world of his time. Most records from nineteenth-century Brittany are the chronicles of and by the middle and upper classes-the formally educated, the advantaged. Deguignet is unique not only as a reading and writing peasant, but in his skepticism regarding the Church; his interest in science, astronomy, and languages; and in his keen-often caustic-observations of the world and people around him. Born in 1834 near Quimper, in Brittany, to landless farmers, the young Deguignet was sent out several times a week to beg for the family's food. After some adolescent years as a cowherd and a domestic speaking only Breton, he left the province as a soldier, avid for knowledge of the vast world. He taught himself Latin, then French, then Italian and Spanish; he read history and philosophy and politics and literature. He was sent to fight in the Crimean war, to attend at Napoleon III's coronation ceremonies, to support Italy's liberation struggle, and to defend the hapless French puppet emperor Maximilian in Mexico. He returned home to live as a tobacco farmer, falling back into dire poverty. Throughout the tale, Deguignet's freethinking, almost anarchic views put him ahead of his time and often (sadly, for him) out of step with his fellows. Deguignet's voluminous notebooks, written from 1897 to 1904, have sold over two hundred sixty-five thousand copies to date in France. Linda Asher (Translator), former fiction editor at The New Yorker, has previously translated into English Restif de la Bretonne, Victor Hugo, George Simenon, and Milan Kundera. The last book she translated for Seven Stories, Martin Winckler's The Case of Dr. Sachs, won the French-American translation prize in 2001. Author Info. Bernez Rouz, a member of the Arkae Association of Historical Research, has devoted his life to tracking down the complete set of the notebooks of Jean-Marie Deguignet, only a fraction of which had been on record for more than a century

Jason Webster in his Sacred Sierra: a year on a Spanish mountain has lengthy quotes as chapter headings from the following work by Ibn al-Awam Kitab al-Falaha, The Book of Agriculture (written in the 12th century). Most of it could have been written yesterday … really fascinating.

Title: A Traveller in Thirteenth-Century Arabia: Ibn al-Mujawir's Tarikh Al-mustabsir Contributor: G. Rex Smith (Editor) Publication Date: November 2007 Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Limited Country of Publication: United Kingdom Market: Australia ISBN: 0-904180-91-3 ISBN13: 978-0-904180-91-6 Item Status: Active Record (Readily Available) Binding Format: Trade Cloth Edition: illustrated Pages: 370 Price: $121.00 (AUD Retail) Rainbow Book Agencies (Distributor) Also Available Through: Alibris ; Baker & Taylor Books; DA Information Services Pty. Limited Current Language: English Original Language: Arabic Audience: General Adult Bowker Subjects: MECCA (SAUDI ARABIA) SAUDI ARABIA_DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL YEMEN General Subjects (BISAC): SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies HISTORY / Middle East / General TRAVEL / Middle East / General General Subjects (BIC): ISLAMIC STUDIES TRAVEL & HOLIDAY_MIDDLE EAST MIDDLE EASTERN HISTORY LCCN: 2007-017576 LC Class #: DS206.I2613 2007 Dewey #: 915.304/2 Synopsis/Annotation: This is the first English translation of the Tarikh al-Mustabsir, written in the early quarter of the thirteenth century by Ibn al-Mujawir. The text is a fascinating account of the western and southern areas of the Arabian Peninsula by a man from the east of the Islamic world, probably from Khurasan in Iran.Ibn al-Mujawir was a man who in all probability followed the age-old Islamic practice of making the pilgrimage to Mecca and thereafter travelling in the area to further his business interests. His route began in Mecca and essentially ran south through the Red Sea coastal plain, Tihamah, down into the Yemen and along the southern coast of the peninsula. He paused long in Aden, where he observed closely the activities of the port to report at some length on its administration, its taxes, its markets, its currency, its weights and measures, and the like. His route then continued along the southern coast of Arabia into the Gulf, and he presumably returned home to the east via Iraq. The author is a wonderful observer of people: their buildings, their dress, their customs, their agriculture, their food and their history.This book is a unique source for the social and economic history of thirteenth-century south Arabia, written with a humour and wit otherwise unknown in the writings of medieval Islam. The text is of major linguistic importance too, written as it is in a far from classical Arabic. This translation is fully annotated with an introduction, glossary, appendices and full indices, and contains maps and illustrations.

Title:	Hemingway's Tribute to Soil
Author:	Henry Mount
Publication Date:	May 2006
Publisher:	iUniverse, Incorporated
Country of Publication:	United States
Market:	United Kingdom
ISBN:	0-595-39758-1
ISBN13:	978-0-595-39758-7
Item Status:	Active Record (Available for Order)
Binding Format:	Trade Paper
Pages:	160
Price:	£7.94 (GBP Retail) Bertrams Books (Wholesaler)
Also Available Through:	Bertrams Books; Gardners Books Limited; Lightning Source, Incorporated; NACSCORP, Incorporated
Current Language:	English
Audience:	General Adult
Bowker Subjects:	HEMINGWAY, ERNEST, 1899-1961 SOILS
General Subjects (BISAC):	TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / Agronomy / Soil Science LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
General Subjects (BIC):	SOIL SCIENCE, SEDIMENTOLOGY AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE LITERATURE: HISTORY & CRITICISM_USA
Synopsis/Annotation:	Scientists beware! One of the finest documentation specialists of soil characteristics was Ernest Hemingway. Henry Mount has assembled hundreds of Hemingway passages and critiqued them from a science-based perspective in his bookHemingway? Tribute to Soil.