A Time to Plant: Life Lessons in Work, Prayer, and Dirt

by Kramer, Kyle T.

• ISBN13: 9781933495262
• ISBN10: 193349526X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-01
• Publisher: Sorin Books

Summary

In his moving debut book, "America" columnist Kyle Kramer recounts the sometimes-gritty story of how he came to experience the joys of real community through a journey of honest reckoning with his own ambitions. For Kramer, this story involves lots of dirt. In the spring of 2000, Kramer, an earnest and high-achieving private school teacher in Atlanta, decided to forego a promising academic career. Instead, he heeded the voices of the unlikely prophets in his life and purchased a block of hardscrabble land in southern Indiana in order to start a small farm. Tending it back to health¿one difficult lesson at a time¿Kramer founded Genesis Organic Farm, built a self-sustaining and environmentally friendly home, and began to fully embrace the Benedictine traditions of physical labor, prayer, and hospitality. "A Time to Plant" is a deeply human story of one man¿s attempt to make simple living a reality as a spiritual discipline for himself, as a model for his children, and for the good of creation.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Coming Home	p. 13
Settling In	p. 39
Loneliness and Love	p. 61
Building Home	p. 79
Farming and Food	p. 103
Children at Play	p. 121
Open Home, Open Heart: Hospitality and Belonging	p. 133
Simplicity, Sacrifice, and the Struggle to Stay Put	p. 145
Conclusion: Home-Grown Hope	p. 161
Acknowledgments	p. 171
Notes	p. 175
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