Seasons on the Farm A Celebration of Country Life Through the Year

by Logan, Ben; Pripps, Robert N.; Johnson, Samantha; Welsch, Roger; Glaser, Amy; Klancher, Lee; Hasheider, Philip; Petersen, Gwen; Apps, Jerry; Becker, Bob; Lumsden, Carolyn; Perry, Michael; Bylander, Jessie

• ISBN13: 9780760327760
• ISBN10: 0760327769
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-10-15
• Publisher: Voyageur Press

Summary

Life on a farm revolves around the seasons of the year, from planning by a fire in the winter to the land awakening in the Spring. The rural music of this seasonal rhythm sounds through this volume. With seasonal memoirs from well-known humorists and farm writers, this is an appealing book full of seasonal unfolding: spring planting, hay baling, harvest suppers. From the poignant to laugh-out-loud funny these evocative essays are illustrated with black-and-white historical photographs and crisp color images that conjure life on a farm both for readers who know it, and those who dream about it.

Author Biography

Robert N. Pripps has authored and co-authored dozens of farm tractor books, including Classic Farm Tractors, Vintage Ford Tractors, Big Book of Caterpillar, Big Book of Massey, and more. Pripps lives near Park Falls, Wisconsin, where he owns a maple syrup farm.Michael Perry is a Wisconsin-based author who wrote Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbor One Siren at a Time. Roger Welsch is a well-known rural scholar whose latest book is about how to keep your sanity while living in the country. Jerrp Apps is a professor emeritus of agriculture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and writes about growing up on a farm. Ben Logan also writes about his childhood on a farm in the driftless area of Wisconsin.Born and raised on the banks of the Brill River in northern Wisconsin, Lee Klancher (Austin, Texas) has been chronicling motorcycle and outdoor adventures big and small since the early 1990s. His favorite adventure articles have covered riding the treacherous 300-mile track that crosses the Bolivian portion of the Amazon jungle, scaring himself senseless on Slovenia's Mount Triglav, and crossing the northeast Australian Outback on Honda XRs. Lee's other interests include mountain biking, dive bars, racquetball, and college hockey. His writing and photography appear regularly in Men's Journal, Motorcyclist, and Motorcycle Escape.Samantha Johnson has been raising rabbits since she was 11 years old. A freelance writer who is a certified horse judge and works on the family horse breeding farm, Samantha wrote the books The Field Guide to Rabbits and How To Raise Horses.

Philip Hasheider is a fifth-generation farmer raising pasture-grazed livestock with his wife and two children near Sauk City, Wisconsin. A former cheesemaker's assistant, his interests in agriculture and history have led him to write eleven books, including Voyageur Press' The Complete Book of Butchering, Smoking, Curing, and Sausage Making and The Hunter's Guide to Butchering, Smoking, and Curing Wild Game and Fish. He has also penned how-to books for raising livestock, which include How to Raise Pigs and How to Raise Cattle. Hasheider has written numerous articles for national and international dairy breed publications, and his diverse work has appeared in the Wisconsin Academy Review, the Capital Times, Wisconsin State Journal, Sickle & Sheaf, and Old Sauk Trails.

Roger Welsch can best be described as a cross between Erma Bombeck and Dr. Ruth, except male and living in Nebraska with his wife and dogs. Before turning his talents to canine psychology, Roger was best known as the fat guy in overalls on CBS Sunday Morning, where he offered up essays on rural and small-town life on the Plains.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Spring

Signs of Spring

Making Maple

My Fatherrsquo;s Flock

Summer

Learning How to Walk Through Life One Auction at a Time

Frank, Pinky, and Harry

The Church of Cold Beer, Wrestling, and Women of Questionable Virtue

Autumn

Scarecrows on the Farm: Images of a Rural Autumn

Harvesting What We Have Been Given

Harvest Suppers

Winter

Feeding the Critters

Winter Tales

Christmas Kaleidoscope

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