A Country Year

A Country Year

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  • Author: Sue Hubbell
  • Publisher: Open Road Media
  • ISBN: 1504042468
  • Category : Nature
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 169

A “delightful, witty” memoir about starting over as a beekeeper in the Ozarks (Library Journal). Alone on a small Missouri farm after a thirty-year marriage, Sue Hubbell found a new love—of the winged, buzzing variety. Left with little but the commercial beekeeping and honey-producing business she started with her husband, Hubbell found solace in the natural world. Then she began to write, challenging herself to tell the absolute truth about her life and the things she cared about. Describing the ups and downs of beekeeping from one springtime to the next, A Country Year transports readers to a different, simpler place. In a series of exquisite vignettes, Hubbell reveals the joys of a life attuned to nature in this heartfelt memoir about life on the land, and of a woman finding her way in middle age. “Once in a while there comes along a book so calm, so honest, so beautiful that even the most jaded or cynical readers have to say thank you. . . . This is such a book” (The San Diego Union-Tribune).


Living a Country Year

Living a Country Year

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  • Author: Jerry Apps
  • Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
  • ISBN: 0870208624
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 170

Jerry App’s farm stories open the barn door to understanding life in the country. “Even with the all the hard work, we had more time (perhaps we took more time) to enjoy what was all around us: nights filled with starlight, days with clear blue skies and puffy clouds. Wonderful smells everywhere—fresh mown hay, wildflowers, and apple blossoms. Interesting sounds—the rumble of distant thunder, an owl calling in the woods, a flock of Canada geese winging over in the fall.” In this paperback edition of a beloved Jerry Apps classic, the rural historian tells stories from his childhood days on a small central Wisconsin dairy farm in the 1930s and 1950s. From a January morning memory of pancakes piled high after chores, to a June day spent learning to ride a pony named Ginger, Jerry moves through the turn of the seasons and teaches gentle lessons about life on the farm. With recipes associated with each month and a new introduction exclusive to this 2nd edition, Living a Country Year celebrates the rhythms of rural life with warmth and humor.


Round of a Country Year

Round of a Country Year

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  • Author: David Kline
  • Publisher: Catapult
  • ISBN: 1619029839
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 206

David Kline has been called a "twentieth–century Henry David Thoreau" by his friends and contemporaries; an apt comparison given the quiet exuberance with which he records the quotidian goings–on on his organic family farm. Under David's attentive gaze and in his clear, insightful prose the reader is enveloped in the rhythms of farm life; not only the planting and harvesting of crops throughout the year, but the migration patterns of birds, the health and virility of honeybees left nearly to their own devices, the songs and silences of frogs and toads, the disappearance and resurgence of praying mantises in fields–turned woodlands, the search for monarch butterflies in the milkweed. There's rhythm in community, too—neighbors gathering to plant potatoes or to maintain an elderly friend's tomato garden, organic farming conferences and meetings around family dining tables or university panels. Interspersed with local lore (when the spring's first bumblebee appears the children can go barefoot) is deep technical knowledge of cultivation and land management and the hazards of modern agri–business. Kline records statewide meetings of district supervisors, knows which speakers and committee chairmen are in the pockets of the oil and gas lobbyists, stands up and says his part. At a time when America's population is being turned toward the benefits of small, local farming practices on our health and our environment, Kline's daybook offers a striking example of the ways in which we are connected to our environment, and the pleasure we can take in daily work and stewardship.


The Country Year-book; Or, The Field, the Forest & the Fireside

The Country Year-book; Or, The Field, the Forest & the Fireside

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  • Author: William Howitt
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Country life
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 438


An Illustrated Country Year

An Illustrated Country Year

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  • Author: Celia Lewis
  • Publisher: A&C Black
  • ISBN: 1408181347
  • Category : Nature
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 194

"A charming and informative anthology of nature through the year." -- cover, p. [4].


The Year-book of the Country; Or, The Field, the Forest, and the Fireside

The Year-book of the Country; Or, The Field, the Forest, and the Fireside

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  • Author: William Howitt
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Country life
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 482


The Country Year-book

The Country Year-book

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  • Author: William Howitt
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Country life
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 423


A Country Year

A Country Year

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  • Author: Sue Hubbell
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  • Languages : en
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Elly's Country Year

Elly's Country Year

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  • Author: Marjorie Sheffer
  • Publisher: Lulu.com
  • ISBN: 0557113113
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 137

Elly and her sisters move from Brooklyn to Centre County, Pennsylvania, to spend a year on a farm. They learn a lot about country life, and by the time she has returned to Brooklyn, Elly has become a published writer.


The Detroit Journal Year-book

The Detroit Journal Year-book

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  • Author: Detroit journal
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Detroit (Mich.)
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 132