Wisdom of the last farmer : harvesting legacies from the land
Item details
- ISBN: 9781416599302
- ISBN: 1416599304
- ISBN: 9781439182420
- ISBN: 1439182426
- ISBN: 9781439117583
- ISBN: 1439117586
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xiii, 238 pages ; 24 cm - Edition: 1st Free Press hardcover ed.
- Publisher: New York : Free Press, 2009.
Contents / Notes
Formatted Contents Note: | Family heirloom -- The price of perfection -- Second sons -- The last orchard -- Calling your father a weed -- Living with insults -- Resilience -- Learning to lean, walking on uneven ground -- Shoveling sand -- Back in the saddle again -- Season of dirt -- Perfect junk -- The art of going slow : French plowing -- Hardpan economics -- Falling down -- Welding -- Killing an orchard to save the farm -- The sweat thesis -- The hands of caregivers -- Farming with ghosts -- Missing stories -- Fields of gold -- Places where we belong -- How many harvests left? -- Coming home -- Names we wear -- Abandoning a vineyard -- Preservation -- Day is done. |
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Subject: | Masumoto, David Mas Peach growers California Biography Organic farmers California Biography Farm life California Masumoto, David Mas Farm life Organic farmers Peach growers California |
Genre: | Biography. |
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Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | |
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Flint River Regional Library System: Peachtree City Library |
630.92 MASUMOTO (
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31022007541714 | ADULT | Available |
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