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Seasons on Henry's Farm : A Year of Food and Life on a Sustainable Farm.
Title:
Seasons on Henry's Farm : A Year of Food and Life on a Sustainable Farm.
Author:
Brockman, Terra.
ISBN:
9781572846562
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (312 pages)
Contents:
Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- I. Hunter's Moon -- Week 1. Garlic Descends -- Week 2. One Turkey Gets Lucky -- Week 3. Icy Harvest Arrives -- Week 4. Wabi-Sabi Prevails -- II. Long Night Moon -- Week 5. Garlic Sleeps -- Week 6. Seed Catalogs Bloom -- Week 7. WINTER SOLSTICE: Time Stretches -- Week 8. Goose Music Continues -- Week 9. Christmas Guesses -- III. Old Moon -- Week 10. Plastic Lapses -- Week 11. Winter Keepers -- Week 12. Digging Deep -- Week 13. Calves Birthed -- IV. Sap Moon -- Week 14. Hog Heaven -- Week 15. Ice Storm Provides -- Week 16. Wood Work -- Week 17. Hoophouse Dreams -- V. Windy Moon -- Week 18. Invisible Corner Turned -- Week 19. Hoophouse Sprouts -- Week 20. Ramps Up -- Week 21. SPRING EQUINOX: Patchwork Emerges -- Week 22. New Life Borne -- VI. Grass Moon -- Week 23. Wind Sprints -- Week 24. A Good Egg -- Week 25. Bees Buzz -- Week 26. Drakes Mount -- VII. Planting Moon -- Week 27. The Enchanted Planting -- Week 28. Asparagus Rising -- Week 29. First Harvest -- Week 30. Floating Love Letters -- VIII. Rose Moon -- Week 31. Breathing Sweetness -- Week 32. Stealing Potatoes -- Week 33. Allium Hankerings -- Week 34. SUMMER SOLSTICE: Hot Winds Blow -- Week 35. The Pageantry of Peas -- IX. Thunder Moon -- Week 36. Garlic Ascends -- Week 37. Ripe and Rotten -- Week 38. Fencing Lesson -- Week 39. Bean by Bean -- X. Green Corn Moon -- Week 40. Corn Porn and More -- Week 41. Aronia Comes Home -- Week 42. Watermelon Heaven -- Week 43. Basil Daze -- Week 44. Hard Harvest Times -- XI. Fruit Moon -- Week 45. Prodigal Fruits -- Week 46. Freeing Roots -- Week 47. AUTUMN EQUINOX: Three Dog Night -- Week 48. Blackened Basil -- XII. Harvest Moon -- Week 49. Ozark Gold Comfort -- Week 50. Resurgent Greens -- Week 51. Sweet Potatoes Cure -- Week 52. Garlic in the Dark -- Index -- About the Author.
Abstract:
Part farm journal, part memoir, this story of a five-generation Illinois farming family takes readers from the soil to the supper table through 52 meditative, closely observed "seasons" on an organic farm, accented with culinary, historical, scientific, and literary reflections and culminating with a bounty of foolproof, fresh-flavored seasonal recipes.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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