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Around Home
Shell Education 2012; US$ 8.99This reader describes four basic shapestriangles, rectangles, squares, and circles. Students look at common objects found around home to find and describe shapes. more...
Letters from Hillside Farm
Fulcrum Publishing 2013; US$ 12.95George Strunkmeyer is challenged with connecting to his family in Cleveland, while making new friends in a rural environment. more...
Life on the Old Farm
F+W Media 2012; US$ 14.99"Life on the Old Farm takes you back to a time, not so long ago, when country life in Britain followed a pattern that had remained largely unchanged for centuries. In this series of fascinating reminiscences, farmers from all over Britain reveal their knowledge - the last generation who know at first hand traditions dating back to Saxon times. Life... more...
High Cotton
Counterpoint 2008; US$ 15.95This dirt-under-the-fingernails portrait of a small-time farmer follows Zack Killebrew over a single year as he struggles to defend his cotton against weeds, insects, and drought, as well as 21st-century threats such as globalization. Over the course of the season, Helferich details how this singular crop has stamped American history and culture like... more...
Rural Renaissance
New Society Publishers 2004; US$ 22.95An inspirational and practical guide for the growing "synthetic urban to organic rural" movement. more...
Vegetable and Crop Production
Oxford Book Co. 2007; US$ 50.00This book is all about vegetable crops and different aspects associated with it. This book starts with the meaning and origin of agriculture, then goes to tell about the herbs and different vegetables. It further traces important topics like transgenic food crops, production of food by-genetic modification (which is much talked about topic now-a-days),... more...
Epitaph for a Peach
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 11.99A lyrical, sensuous and thoroughly engrossing memoir of one critical year in the life of an organic peach farmer, Epitaph for a Peach is "a delightful narrative . . . with poetic flair and a sense of humor" (Library Journal). Line drawings. more...
Days on the Family Farm
University of Minnesota Press 2007; US$ 54.00From the beginning of the twentieth century to World War II, farm wife May Lyford Davis kept a daily chronicle that today offers a window into a way of life that has all but disappeared. Through May and her husband Elmo's story, Days on the Family Farm, showcases the evolution of agriculture from horses to automobiles and tractors, a surprisingly... more...
Hay Fever
Wiley 2011; US$ 24.95The compelling, funny story of a high-powered professional’s life-changing journey from Manhattan big cheese to Vermont goat cheesemaker In the tradition of food memoirs like Under the Tuscan Sun and A Year in Provence, Hay Fever tells the story of New York City literary agent Angela Miller and how looking for tranquility on a Vermont farm... more...
Field Days
University of California Press 2009; US$ 40.00?Sooner or later, nearly everyone who cares about wine and food comes to Sonoma??so begins this lively excursion to a spectacular region that has become known internationally as a locavore's paradise. Part memoir, part vivid reportage, Field Days chronicles the renaissance in farming organically and eating locally that is unfolding in Northern California.... more...









