A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm

by Crawford, Stanley

• ISBN13: 9780826319609
• ISBN10: 0826319602
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr

Summary

From his New Mexico mountain home, award-winning author Stanley Crawford writes about growing garlic and selling it. The book is a favourite not only for its assemblage of garlic and farming lore but for what it tells us about how to live a satisfying life. This beloved book, first published in 1992, is now available only from the University of New Mexico Press.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xiii
I AUTUMN: PLANTINGS	1	(58)
1 Garlic Questions Finally Answered	3	(3)
2 Uprightness Is All	6	(4)
3 The Earth: That Sea	10	(7)
4 Garlic Ghettos	17	(4)
5 The Flying Clone	21	(3)
6 Crops, Words, Movies	24	(6)
7 One Makes Twelve	30	(5)
8 Water	35	(3)
9 The Pound Weight of the Real	38	(6)
10 Which Leads to the Subject of Vampires	44	(5)
11 Buried Blossoms	49	(4)
12 December Light	53	(6)
II WINTER: BORDERS	59	(42)
13 Waiting	61	(9)
14 A Hope in Vultures	70	(5)
15 Magpies	75	(6)
16 How to Raise a Magpie	81	(7)
17 Accretions	88	(7)
18 Cheatgrass	95	(6)
III SPRING: CONTEXTS	101	(72)
19 Water: Continued	103	(4)
20 An Orchard, A Painting	107	(3)
21 Water: Concluded	110	(4)
22 Fertilizers	114	(7)
23 How to Farm	121	(6)
24 Hoeing	127	(8)
25 Companions	135	(7)
26 Pyrotechnics	142	(8)
27 A History of Digging	150	(6)
28 Garlic Pulls and Garlic Washings	156	(4)
29 Plays, Instructions, Harvests	160	(6)
30 Forms of Wealth	166	(7)
IV SUMMER: EXCHANGE	173	(67)
31 Sorting	175	(5)
32 Buying and Selling: The Pound Weight of the Real, Continued	180	(6)
33 The City	186	(5)
34 Staying Home	191	(3)
35 Third World Summers	194	(10)
36 To Market: Santa Fe	204	(11)
37 The Atomic Bomb Ring	215	(15)
38 Miracle Cure	230	(4)
39 Financial Statement	234	(6)
Sources	240