Brisson, Pat
Summary: As a family sits down to enjoy a meal, thoughts of those who provide the food, from farmers who plant and tend seeds to store clerks who sell groceries, fill each one with gratitude.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House, Publishers 2018
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BRIHilty, Steven L.
Summary: With very few people engaged in agriculture today, it is no surprise that most Americans have little understanding of the challenges that modern farmers face. This book provides readers a glimpse into life on a modern Missouri farm where a variety of grains, grass seed, corn, and cattle are produced.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Missouri Press 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 363 HILSummary: Fresh celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet. Among others, Fresh features urban farmer and activist Will Allen, sustainable farmer and entrepreneur Joel Salatin, and supermarket owner David Ball.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Ripple Effect Productions 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FRESalatin, Joel
Summary: The author adapts the procedures of his successful Virginia farm to the scale of small land owners and city dwellers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Polyface, Inc. 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The Jordan family has farmed in Iowa for generations. Due to the crisis of the '80s and '90s, they are in danger of losing the farm. One of the daughters comes back home to document the extraordinary efforts the family makes to keep their farm.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Products 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TROGray, Shelley Shepard.
Summary: Randall Beiler is angry when his brother hires Elizabeth Nolt, the woman whose heart Randall broke, as a housekeeper on their family farm, but when he learns of her hard financial situation he knows it is the right thing to do, and may even give him a second chance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Inspire an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRASnelling, Lauraine
Summary: "Larkspur Nielsen is determined to keep the family homestead running, even if she must do it alone. When she discovers that Isaac McTavish has feelings for her, she pushes him away to protect her heart. But how can she build the life she's always dreamed of when unexpected dangers arrive?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SNEGenoways, Ted
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 630 GENYoung, Erin
Summary: "It starts with a body--a young woman found dead in an Iowa cornfield--on one of the few family farms still managing to compete with the giants of Big Agricultur e. When Sergeant Riley Fisher, newly promoted to head of investigations for the Black Hawk County Sheriff's Office, arrives on the scene, an already horrific crime becomes personal as she discovers the victim was a childhood friend...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC YOUScore, Lucy
Summary: Carter Pierce wants to spend his days tending the family farm he inherited and that's about it. After a tour of duty and a few bullet holes, he's looking forward to some peace and quiet in his hometown. Unfortunately for the sexy, bearded farmer, hippie-dippie Blue Moon doesn't believe in peace and quiet. And his nosy neighbors sure as hell don't know how to mind their own business. Neither...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloom Books 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Modern-day Christmas classic set in the picturesque Smoky Mountains, telling the story of a family's journey to save their historic berry farm against all odds during one fateful holiday season.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY CHRHildebrand, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.6155 HILMasumoto, David Mas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 634.2584 MASSummary: Wherever you live - farm, suburb, or even city - The Homesteading Handbook will show you how to embrace a more self-sufficient lifestyle. Learn to plan, plant, and harvest your own organic garden. Enjoy fruits and vegetables year-round by canning, drying, and freezing. Build and install alternate energy devices such as solar panels or geothermal heat pumps. Who doesn't want to shrink their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640 GEHBrox, Jane
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.272 BROPritchard, Forrest.
Summary: Upon discovering that months of backbreaking work and five freight cars' worth of glittering corn have reaped his family's farm a profit of $18.16, young Forrest Pritchard, fresh out of college, resolves to take matters into his own hands. What ensues--through a series of hilarious encounters with all manner of livestock and colorful local characters--is a crash course in sustainable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Garden Home PritchardVersluis, Arthur
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 630.9774 VERBrown, Carolyn
Summary: "Angela Marie has spent all of her thirty-five years on Meadow Falls, the farm that's been in her Texas family for generations. It wasn't her plan. It was an obligation. Now that her parents -- less loving kin than strangers -- have passed, the whole shebang belongs to Angela. And a legacy she never wanted is hers to uphold. She can't forsake it now. Her beloved nanny, Mandy, who was always...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BROFoster, Marilee
Summary: A fifth-generation farmer from the Hamptons observes the transformation of plant and animal life on her land through the changing seasons and in the face of residential development.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bridge Works Pub. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 630.9747 FOSBrox, Jane
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1999
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 974.272 BROSummary: "In a little town in upstate New York, a close-knit family struggles over many decades to hold onto a small dairy farm. With extraordinary candor and heartbreaking intimacy, this poignant documentary brings to light the true story of an American family: their hopes and dreams, their triumphs over tragedy, the modern conflicts that divide them and the love that binds them together. At the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Morninglight Films 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AMECoffman, Steven.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons & Burford 1995