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| ashcordes |
Posted - Oct 02 2009 : 10:59:32 AM
Just finished two books about the farm- both are about Indiana (my home state):
Home on the Farm (If Chickens Could Talk)- by Lorene McCormick Burkhart- this is a great memoir of her growing up in the 40's on an Indiana farm and the back part if full of yummy family recipes
Rural Free- A Farmwife's Almanac of Country Living by Rachel Peden- this is separated out by months and is full of what's going on at the farm that time of the year, which animals are doing what- lots about nature, etc. |
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| Celticheart |
Posted - Oct 25 2009 : 4:21:29 PM
Bean Blossom Dreams is another good one. I loved Little Heathens.
It's not about being perfect, but enjoying what you do. Set aside time to be creative.
Robyn Pandolph
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| britchickny |
Posted - Oct 25 2009 : 3:44:39 PM
I just finished Farm City and really enjoyed it. Very thought provoking. I'm going to try some of the other recomendations here. Thanks girls. 
ANGIE
"Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance" JUDE 1:2
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| MotherLodeBeth |
Posted - Oct 25 2009 : 2:23:56 PM
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Originally posted by Bonnie Ellis
Those sound great. Add to the list : Little Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish about hard times and high spirits on an Iowa farm during the great depression.
LOVE that book!!! And an excellent book for the times we are living in. ~Beth~
~MotherLodebeth- I was born in the wrong era~ |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Oct 12 2009 : 7:32:34 PM
I just read one called Farm City by Novella Carpenter that I really enjoyed. The author is an urban farmer...she really lives "bloom where you are planted".
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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| Bonnie Ellis |
Posted - Oct 12 2009 : 4:58:01 PM
Those sound great. Add to the list : Little Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish about hard times and high spirits on an Iowa farm during the great depression. Also Once Upon a Farm by Bob Artley. It's great for children because he is an artist and has great illustrations about the way things were on the farm in Hampton Iowa. He was an illustrator for many newspapers for much of his lifetime and is a delightful old gentleman.
Bonnie
grandmother and orphan farmgirl |
| ashcordes |
Posted - Oct 03 2009 : 6:07:58 PM
Glad to be of help! I know the authors have written other books as well, but I don't know the titles.... |
| MissLiss |
Posted - Oct 02 2009 : 8:25:32 PM
Me too!
Melissa ~ Farmgirl #724
Use it up, Wear it out, Make it do, Or go without! |
| 1badmamawolf |
Posted - Oct 02 2009 : 6:24:35 PM
Those are my kinda books, I will be on the look out for them. Thanks for the titles.
"Treat the earth well, it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children" |
| maggie14 |
Posted - Oct 02 2009 : 12:41:24 PM
These sound like really good books! I'll have to see if the library has them in. Thanks for sharing Ashley!
Maggie |
