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Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
With the interest in small-scale, local-food farm production continuing to expand, Compact Farms speaks to the many new farmers who want to make a living on a small plot of land, with 15 detailed plans adapted from actual, successful farms ranging from .25 to 5 acres in both rural and urban locations.--
Author
Series
Bear and Mole stories volume 4
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
Bear has no trouble selling his berries at the farmers' market, but Mole and Skunk are less successful with their worms and perfume.
43) Peepli live
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Hindi
Description
In the week of local elections in the Indian village of Peepli, two poor farmers, Natha and Budhia, face losing their land over an unpaid government loan. Desperate, they seek help from an apathetic local politician who suggests they commit suicide to benefit from a government program that aids the families of indebted deceased farmers. When a journalist overhears Budhia urge Natha to 'do what needs to be done', a media frenzy ignites around whether...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When Houston reporter Lucy Resnick cashes in her retirement to buy her grandmother's farm in Buttercup, Texas, she's looking forward to a simple life as a homesteader. But Lucy has barely finished putting up her first batch of Killer Dewberry Jam when an oil exploration truck rolls up to the farm and announces plans to replace her broccoli patch with an oil derrick. Two days later, Nettie Kocurek, the woman who ordered the drilling, turns up dead...
47) Hogwash!
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When his stubborn pigs refuse a sudsy cleaning, a determined farmer learns that mud baths can be just as fun.
Author
Pub. Date
1992, 1983.
Language
English
Description
Set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s, A Gathering of Old Men is a powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man. "Poignant, powerful, earthy ... a novel of Southern racial confrontation in which a group of elderly black men band together against whites who seek vengeance for the murder of one of their own.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The eggs aren't the only things dyeing in Buttercup...It's springtime on Dewberry Farm, and homesteader Lucy Resnick is putting together her wares for the Easter Market. She's just finished potting the last of her herb starts when a tornado rips through her farm, destroying her crops, scattering her lifestock and tearing up the barn. As Lucy searches for two kids lost in the storm, she makes a grisly discovery: her neighbor's home health aide, Eva,...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Narrated by the chi, or spirit of a young poultry farmer named Chinonso. His life is set off course when he sees a woman who is about to jump off a bridge. Horrified by her recklessness, he hurls two of his prized chickens off the bridge. The woman, Ndali, is stopped in her tracks. Chinonso and Ndali fall in love but she is from an educated and wealthy family. When her family objects to the union on the grounds that he is not her social equal, he...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The family farm lies at the heart of our national identity, and yet its future is in peril. Rick Hammond grew up on a farm, and for forty years he has raised cattle and crops on his wife's fifth-generation homestead in Nebraska, in hopes of passing it on to their four children. But as the handoff nears, their small family farm--and their entire way of life--are under siege. Beyond the threat posed by rising corporate ownership of land and livestock,...
Author
Series
Farmer books volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A wordless picture book in which a farmer rescues a baby clown who's bounced off the circus train, and reunites him with his clown family.
56) Market day
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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Description
The Benson family is so busy preparing for the farmers' market they forget to feed the cow and leave the farmyard gate open, which leads to chaos.
58) Farmland
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
An in-depth documentary covering multiple personal stories of young US farmers and ranchers. Most Americans have never stepped foot on a working farm or ranch or ever had the opportunity to talk to the people who grow and raise the food we eat.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
For twelve-year-old Martha “Sonny” Creech, there is no place more beautiful than her family’s cotton farm. She, her two brothers, and her parents work hard on their land—hoeing, planting, picking—but only Sonny loves the rich, dark earth the way her father does. When a tragic accident claims his life, her stricken family struggles to fend off ruin—until their rich, reclusive neighbor offers to help finance that year’s cotton crop. Sonny...
60) Horseplay!
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A farmer tries to change the behavior of his rowdy horses who play all night and sleep all day.
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