Farmers


A Painted House
Bittersweet (True North, #1)
Keepsake (True North #3)
Cream of the Crop (Hudson Valley, #2)
The Farmer and the Clown (The Farmer Books)
The Four Winds
After We Fall (After We Fall, #2)
Nuts (Hudson Valley, #1)
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
In a Jam (Friendship, Rhode Island, #1)
Featherbed (Vino & Veritas, #1)
Roommate (Vino & Veritas)
Heartland (True North #7)
The Farmer
Plainsong (Plainsong, #1)
Arnold Lobel
Such good round pigs,” said the farmer, “we must buy them.
Arnold Lobel, A Treeful of Pigs

Wendell Berry
Some of the most memorable, and least regrettable, nights of my own youth were spent in coon hunting with farmers. There is no denying that these activities contributed to the economy of farm households, but a further fact is that they were pleasures; they were wilderness pleasures, not greatly different from the pleasures pursued by conservationists and wilderness lovers. As I was always aware, my friends the coon hunters were not motivated just by the wish to tree coons and listen to hounds an ...more
Wendell Berry, Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food

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