Tuesday, 2 March 2010

Farm Blogs.Org (Self-Recommended)

'Farm Blogs was created for farmers by a real farm family. Each of the pictures on this page were taken on our family farm. You don't have to be a web developer to get your farm online with the tools that are available these days. If you are involved in agriculture and would like to start blogging about your farm, you can get yours here on Farm Blogs quickly and easily. We can even help you sell products on your blog with e-commerce.'

I was contacted by Mike Murhpy at Farm Blogs.org and this is what he had to say:

'We have a small family farm and raise sheep and cattle on pasture. We concentrate on breeds that work well for small farms. We also have a guardian llama who actually stands over the lambs when their mothers go get water in the first few days of their lives. He also patiently lays there and lets the lambs use his back to play king of the hill as they take turns jumping on him and knocking each other off. He does a great job of keeping coyotes and stray dogs away from the sheep, but so do our Scottish Highland cattle with their impressive horns. We raise pork , chicken, and eggs as well.

We started Farm Blogs at
http://www.farmblogs.org to give farms who may be daunted by getting their own website an option for easily getting their own blogs with either their own domain name, or theirname.farmblogs.org. If they know how, they can set up and maintain their blogs, or we can even help them get them set up and teach them how to easily maintain their blog.'

Cattle Call Farm Recommends....

Cattle Call Farm Blog




Here are Kathy's recommendations.

She writes that 'Each of these sights post pictures that make you feel like your right on the farm. My girls have taken an interest in the blog. We call it our virtual farm trip, sights we will probably never get to see in person, but we are getting to view through others eyes.'

A COUPLE MOVES FROM THE BIG CITY TO THE COUNTRYSIDE AND STARTS A SMALL FARM...WAIT, YOU'VE HEARD THIS PREMISE BEFORE? WHAT? TRITE? HACKNEYED? BUT, I HAVE GOATS. REALLY CUTE PICTURES OF TINY BABY GOATS. AND CHEESEMAKING RECIPES. WE SLAUGHTER OUR OWN PIGS AND CURE OUR OWN BACON! WELL, THAT'S IN THE MASTER PLAN, ANYWAY. JUST READ IT, YOU'LL SEE


Kathy: New to Farm Life-Aimees' post are very informative with great pictures and stories.

Schoonover Farm Blog

This is the newest blog for our little farm in Skagit county. Here we raise Shetland sheep, Nigerian Dwarf goats, Satin Angora rabbits & pheasants. In addition we have donkeys, llamas, chickens, geese, ducks, peafowl and a turkey. The blog describes the weekly activities here.




Kathy: Donna keeps her post up to date, gives a lot of great information.

THE ONGOING ADVENTURES OF A FAMILY OF SIX LIVING IN THE WOODS, HOMESTEADING AND HOMESCHOOLING.


Kathy: Stumbled upon this farm, she is also from WV. Like hearing about her life in WV in comparison to mine.


Cattle Call Farm Blog (WV, U.S.A.) Recommended

Cattle Call Farm Blog


Kathy live in West Virginia, United States. She just started blogging about her life on her family farm. She's new to the Internet and blogging.

As she is pretty much on call 24/7's with the farm, she thought blogging might help her meet people with the same interest.

The farm belonged to her dad, and now it has been passed on to Kathy. She's found out she has some pretty big shoes to fill. Thankfully at 83 her dad is still living and helping Kathy and her two girls run the farm.

'It's a lot of work', she writes, 'but it has big rewards.The blog started as a hobby in the winter, but I have met some really interesting people with the same love of animals I have. We also share great ideas and a lot of tips about farming.'

Kathy, that's a big undertaking and I salute you, both for the farming and embracing the blogging. Good luck and if you want to meet people, Farm Blogs from Around the World is very much the place to do it, and one of the reasons I set this blog up in the first place; because the reality is, many farmers are pretty isolated and very busy and the Internet has transformed their connectivity to other like-minded souls.

Monday, 1 March 2010

Marie at Eden's Farm Recommends....

Here are Marie's recommendations:

'I WISH I had time to follow 5 other blogs, but the main one that comes to mind is:


in Brenham, TX. Brad and Jenny Stufflebeam are great mentors, not to mention great human beings and wonderful farmers! His blog has provided many a new Texas farmer with start up planting plans and great tips and advice as well as info that keeps us abreast on legislation, etc.
I also frequent the:

which consists really of several blogs in some of the threads, specifically, the "daily Journal" thread. There are 3 farmers who pretty regularly post.

has a good blog, Julie very regular and so is John at:

THE CORNUCOPIA


'Life on the Farm' aka Eden's Farm, Texas, U.S.A. (Recommended)

I was recommended to this blog by Robert and subsequently have heard from Eden's Farm herself. Here's what Marie has to say about her farm.
'Robert and I were classmates way back when in IL when we were kids - all the way from kindergarten through high school! And I recently visited his farm in IL after reconnecting via the infamous face book site. I am flattered that he recommended my blog to you and again that you accepted his suggestion. Thank you.

My farm consists of part horse boarding (ranch) and undevelopable as well as production farm. The current area fenced off from horses is about 2 acres, though the total property is just over 14. Currently, I produce market garden varieties depending on the season. The farm is located in Balch Springs, Texas, which is a rural, but growing faster than many would like it to, small city, just 20 minutes outside of downtown Dallas. There was no railroad here, so the community was built up around springs, hence the name, and was a heavily farmed and ranched community until not so long ago. More ranch probably than farm, although the soil I have been blessed with is great compared to the normal heavy "black gumbo" the majority of north Texas contends with.
My blog was started as a way to communicate with my farm's supporters. I have started this farm with the support of CSA and without it, I would not have a farm. I've taken to farming full time now, and desperately need to up my membership this winter or get a job. :(
I'm a new agriculturist, after a long stint as a horticulturist both personally and professionally, for over 20 years. I worked retail as well as landscaping biz before being bitten by the food growing bug. :) I am most proud of our use of renewable energy and plans to continue to expand its use to other areas and perfect what we have going now as it has its glitches to say the least. But it sure beats paying the electric company and using city water! ugh! '




www.ianwalthew.com


Thought for the day from Erin.


I was just reading Erin's email from One Wild and Precious Life.

it signs off with:

"we are the ones we have been waiting for"

The Elders, Hopi Nation






www.ianwalthew.com

'One wild and precious life' Recommends...

Five extremely interesting recommendations by Erin over at One wild and precious life in Brewster, NY.

As an author myself I love author run blogs but do wonder how on earth they manage to maintain such good blogs and write - something I can't do. As you can no doubt see (from this blog I hope, not from my books!).

Here's what Erin has to say about his recommendations - btw, the perfect length and interest for anyone recommending blogs.

1. I really like the blog "Dissertation to Dirt" by Neysa, who also is making a transition from academic life to the farm. Neysa originally interned at a farm near me here in New York, but now is in Austin, TX at a large CSA.

2. "Restoring Mayberry". I like this blog as it's about homesteading, self-sufficiency, and the environment as well--and how these are all interconnected. The author, Brian Kaller, lives with his family in rural Ireland, but is from the US originally.

3. "Stony Run Farm". The author focuses on living simply and sustainably, and is inspiring to me because it's about being self-sufficient on just one acre. She's a wonderful writer, too. The farm is located in Oregon.

4. I also like a local blog, called "Farming the WC" (Westchester County), which is near us in NY. They have both a farm and an environmental center in operation, over 180 acres, which makes for interesting comparisons with our little spot.

5. The last blog I'd like to recommend is "Urban Gardens: Unlimited Thinking for Limited Spaces" which is a great combination of urban farming and green design. The blog is run by Robin Horton, and I think she's in the New York area, but not sure.



One Wild and Precious Life (NY, U.S.A.) Recommended

Erin's blog One Wild and Precious Life is absolutely fascinating. Well-written a wide array of photos on the blog and Flickr.

She follows her journey alongside a small group of nuns on their organic farm, in Brewster, NY. Her writings document what she's learning, simultaneously, about food, farming and faith.

Bluestone Farm is a small farm, devoted mostly to sustaining the Sisters of the Community of the Holy Spirit (Episcopal Church USA) and their guests, but they also sell at the local weekly farmers market from June-November, and they sell eggs and maple syrup throughout the year. They raise chickens, ducks, and bees, and we do maple sugaring as well.

The farm is less than an acre, farmed intensively. We grow more than forty crops, from corn and oats to snap peas, from Scarlet Runner beans to New Zealand spinach.

About 85% of what we consume at the farm is grown on-site, and we spend a good deal of time preserving and storing food to last throughout the winter months.

The Sisters also make wine and weave cloth, write music and tan hides.

Erin writes that 'It's a pretty good life!' and I can well believe her. A recent post on drinking fresh sap had me drooling.

Brookfarm Alpacas (CA, U.S.A.) Recommended

Brookfarm Alpacas (CA, U.S.A.) Recommended

Brookfarm ~ Alpacas & Maremmas in the Valley of the Moon Glen Ellen, California www.brookfarmalpaca.com

Alpaca Farm Girl may be known to some of you but check out Brookfarm...
Here's Debbie on the set up:
BROOKFARM ALPACAS ~ Where raising quality alpacas and producing superb fiber is our top priority!
'Our plan with Brookfarm was to bring the Brookfarm name back to reality ~ the farm name that Mark's grandparents used for the original 33 acres when the thriving egg farm was active and Grand Father raised a few beef and many other animals.
Our 11 acres of the farm had been used over the years for casual farming with Nubian dairy goats, New Zealand Red rabbits, some geese, ducks, chickens; even a pony and horse. For years, the chickens remained along with assorted dogs and cats. With Mark's retirement from the fire service, we decided to bring Brookfarm back to a working farm, beginning with Alpacas and Maremma livestock guardian dogs.'

Sunday, 28 February 2010

Updates on Farm Blogs from Around the World.

Sorry folks for being off-line for so long, but I've been absorbed in finishing a novel which has just gone off to my agent.

Last week it was time to kill and butcher our pigs (we make mainly charcuterie) but now finally, some time for Farm Blogs from Around the World.

Firstly, my apologies to all those people who have written to me with recommendations or self-recommendations and haven't heard from me.

However in other posts I've made this morning you'll find I've got someway into doing some new profiles of new blogs and their recommendations.

I've also written to a number of self-recommenders who have asked to be included on Farm Blogs but who haven't given me more info on their blog (some text to use for a profile), permission to use some pics from their blog, and crucially, their 5 OWN RECOMMENDATIONS FOR BLOGS THAT ARE NOT YET LISTED ON THE BLOG ROLL, with the full name and url of each, and a sentence on why they like them (for examples, please see some recent posts below).

Tammy, Marie, Mike and Erin: hoping to get you and your recommendations done this coming week at the latest.

Shelly, Ken, Kendra, Donna, Kathy, Mike, Claire, John, Deborah: I've written to you explaining the way Farm Blogs works and I'm looking forward to hearing from you so that I can do a post on not only your blog but also your recommendations.

The whole idea is that this site grows organically: good bloggers recommend better ones...


P.S. If you're a fan of Farm Blogs from Around the World (www.farmblogs.blogspot.com) and you're listed on my blog roll, please would you be kind enough to put me on your blog roll?

P.P.S If you're a real big fan, please help support Farm Blogs from Around the World (a non-profit site which doesn't let commercial bloggers on) by buying, and hopefully reviewing my book A Place in My Country and this blog on your own blog. A Place in My Country is available at:






Brookfarm Alpacas Recommends...

Debbie at Brookfarm Alpacas recommends the following blogs. (Good to have some more fibre - or fiber for our American cousins - amongst our fruit.)

Very informative, frequent entries, very crafty gal with great ideas


Lovely products, colors to die (dye) for, great classes, and a friend too!


GIRL ON THE ROCKS

formerly known as Knit This… Knitting, spinning,


Clever, creative, frequent entries


DMAR Alpaca and Maremma Blog



Alpacas, maremmas, oh my. Great educational information on everything alpaca. My kinda gal!








Beesybee fiber's Blog

Life in West Marin seen through the eye of an needle


Visually beautiful blog, beautiful colors, wonderful projects


Life on My Farm (Recommended)

Thanks to Farm Blogs reader Robert for tipping me off to this one. Looks great. Well worth a visit.


'A blog of my journey from horticulturist and horse pasture keeper (aka barn queen), to organic, local produce farmer, or agriculturist to be more formal, at Eden's Garden. A new branch of my life unfolding. A new organic, local, urban CSA farm is in the making - to the delight of locavores - folks seeking healthy, fresh, natural and local eating, in DFW.'

Daylesford Organics Recommends...

Daylesford Organics Recommends...


Down to Earth 'Simple, down to earth, back to basics'. (Australia)

The Simple Green Frugal Blogspot 'Beautiful photos, good discussions on a range of topics'.

Daylesford Organics (Victoria, Australia) Self-recommender


Kate and Brendon wrote to me about their farm and blog and I'm happy to include it, not least of all because it's a fine blog, but also because they provided me with some text to use in profiling their blog, permission to use up to five photos from their blog and recommended their favourite blogs. (I usually ask for 5, they sent me 2, but who's counting? Well, me actually; I do like 5 new ones but as my wife is Australian, special dispensation.)

If you'd like to self-recommend, please do so on the above conditions. People who don't do this, I'm afraid I won't be able to profile and add to the blog roll because the whole idea of this blog is that bloggers (good ones) recommend other (hopefully better) ones.

P.S Having a problem uploading photos which I will get round to fixing sometime in this decade.

Over to Kate:

We are a Certified Organic mixed family farm in Daylesford Victoria. We focus on sustainability and biodiversity. We have orchards, market gardens, ducks and chickens. We work with the seasons and in any given year will produce up to 40 varieties of apples, hazelnuts, berries, free range eggs and up to 30 different vegetables often with several varieties of each. We enjoy growing heirloom varieties with lots of different flavours and colours as you can see by our carrots on the banner. We sell produce to local cafés and restaurants and at farmer's markets.
19 Foxs Lane
Muskvale VIC 3461
0411 040 412
daylesfordorganics.com‎
http://www.daylesfordorganics.blogspot.com/

Sweet Local Farm Recommends

Luciano's fiance at Sweet Local Farm spends a lot of time reading about other farms. These are her top 5 (and as ever I stress her top five because I AM NOT personally recommending Martha Stewart!).

Tiny Farm Blog -
TFB is the first farm blog I found. Since I own a tiny farm, I can relate to the day to day chores and trials at this farm. I like the photography included in each post. This farm is in Canada, so I know I'm behind schedule when they are doing things I should have done 5 weeks before.

Surviving on Massachusetts-
This little local food/garden blog is great. I relate to the writer because she lives in my state and is about my age. She also leaves me great comments!

Skippy's Vegetable Garden -
All time favorite gardening blog! Kathy updates all the time and takes great aerial shots of her home garden and community garden. I also like the radish and cucumber martinis she features.

Rachels Tiny Farm-
This is a fascinating blog for an east coast farmer to read because she is located in Arizona. She can grow citrus, she has a completely different growing season, but I can still relate to her. She is a "next generation farmer" and very talented artist.

The Martha Blog -
Although Martha Stewart blogs about many aspects of her life, she often writes about her farm in Bedford, NY. Her farm is what mine would look like if I had endless amounts of time and money. I'll keep dreaming.

Land Strategies Recommends...

Eat.Drink.Better. The World of Food From the Farm to Your Table (General Resource)

Sustainable Table. Serving Up Healthy Food Choices (General Resource)









Land Strategies (UK) Self-recommender

I don't normally profile blogs that have a fairly evident commercial angle to their activity but I thought this one was interesting and worthwhile.

http://landstrategies.blogspot.com is run by Colette Burke.

Although her company has it's own website she also runs this blog which provides a 'regular round up of news and comment about consumers, the food they buy and the places they buy from, aiming to provide British farmers with an easy way to keep up to date with consumer trends.'

After a 25 year career with Cadbury Schweppes Colette moved into the agricultural sector to see whether the marketing skills learnt at Cadbury could be applied to farming.

Following a spell at the Royal Agricultural College Cirencester, she started her own farmers marketing consultancy, Land Strategies. Her brother and she run a livestock farm together in the Scottish Borders.

Alpaca Farmgirl Recommends...

It's pretty slack I know, to receive an email from someone in February of 2009 and only dealing with it 12 months later. My only excuse is that in 2009 I completed a 200,000 word novel. Beyond that, shame on me.

Alpaca Farmgirl , long featured on this blog, has the following recommendations. Here they are. Katy - sorry for my tardiness.


The Inadvertent Farmer This is a beautiful blog written by a lady who has various farm animals and a camel. She posts recipes with gorgeous photographs on her blog

St. Fairsted Farm This blog is about farming, rural issues, and food. She gives good tips and have nice photos.

Life on a Southern Farm This is a blog that documents many farming tasks and has a real authentic quality to it.

Rooster Hill Farm This blog has introduced me to some aspects of farming. I particularly loved the visit from the AI (artificial insemination) Guy in his cow painted vehicle.

Honest Farm Inspirational blog with gorgeous photography, recipes, and great food ideas. She promotes buying your food locally.

Hope that helps grow the farmblogs around the world.

Best Regards,,
Alpaca Farmgirl
www.alpacafarmgirl.com

The Cabbage Tree Farm Recommends...

Some blog recommendations, sorry I only know of 3 at this point, most of the blogs I follow tend to be mainly foodie ones rather than people doing something similar to us.
1. Eco-Gites of Lenault in Calvados, France, /, stories from an English family in France who are setting up an eco homestay and intend to supply organic veges and local produce to their guests.

2. Farmlet A NZ family striving towards self-sufficiency, cheese making is one of their interests among other things.

3. The Cottage Smallholder. Not a farm, however this great blog is about an English couple trying to be more self sufficient with growing their own veg, keeping chickens, curing their own bacon and trying hard (succeeding too) to make gourmet meals from budget priced supermarket food.

The Cabbage Tree Farm (NZ) (Recommendation)


The Cabbage Tree Farm blog aims to describe some of the day to day happenings on their 10 acre piece of rural land in Northland, New Zealand.

Their priority is to produce for themselves as much fresh, natural food (i.e. not sprayed with pesticides) as they can.

They moved from the city onto their ‘block’ (short for lifestyle block, the common NZ description of their land) in mid 2006.

They are working on the land: establishing an orchard, trying to maintain a good year round supply of vegetables and herbs in their garden, landscape our surroundings for privacy and wind protection, and raise a small number of stock.

At present they have their own supply of fresh eggs, some meat from their chickens and 5 cows (for meat later).

They are striving towards being more self sufficient. They're interested in growing food, hunting/fishing and gathering.

Future projects could include bee keeping, cheese making, making homemade wine, various crafts such as candle making (beeswax) and weaving flax (Phormium tenax) baskets.

The majority of my posts are recipes. Also they post details of progress (and failures!) in their veg garden and orchard, and details of other projects they're doing around their farm.


Monday, 28 December 2009

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....

______________________

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.



Tuesday, 6 October 2009

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
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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.