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1. John Clare was the son of a poor farm laborer from Northamptonshire and would doubtless have remained anonymous had he not possessed an extraordinary ability to express in poetic language the ...

More than 50 artists from all over the world came together to fundraise and help the non-profit continue its work in food ...

ROOTS IN THE EARTH—P. Alston Waring and Walter Magnes Teller—Harper ($2.50). This small (202-page) book is big news because it combats a hard-plugged notion that U.S. farms are going to be ...

Premium books for the upcoming Butler Farm Show are now available. The farm show’s premium book consists of all contest rules and regulations. Interested applicants can find the premium books at the ...

Brox’s three books about her family’s farm in Massachusetts, published individually some two decades ago, are a paean to a way of life once considered the bedrock of America and now mostly ...

ACRES AND PAINS (126 pp.)—S. J. Perelman—Reynal & Hitchcock ($2). The auctioneer's voice boomed out the cow's pedigree: "ZangwilPs Bijou Lass, the daughter of Throaty ...

Wish Book: School children harvest lessons on nutrition, environment and science by spending time on the farm “You can’t pick a vegetable in a book.” ...