NAUTILUS BOOK AWARD WINNER
"A heartfelt meditation on farm, food, and family…a love story of the land and a life spent caring for it."
-HANNAH NORDHAUS, author of The Beekeeper's Lament
In this love story of land and family, Kayann Short explores her farm roots from her grandparents' North Dakota homesteads to her own Stonebridge Farm, an organic, community-supported farm on the Colorado Front Range where small-scale, local agriculture borrows lessons of the past to cultivate sustainable communities for the future.
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KAYANN SHORT, Ph.D., is a writer, farmer, teacher, and activist at Stonebridge Farm, an organic community-supported farm in the Rocky Mountain foothills. She has directed memoir and digital storytelling projects with community elders, adult literacy students, and nonprofit organizations. Her writing has appeared in Women's Review of Books, The Bloomsbury Review, Edible Front Range, and Colorado Gardener. More on her ecology-based memoir work is available at www.ecobiography.com. Besides growing delicious food at Stonebridge, Short teaches the important place of organic food production and agricultural preservation in a healthy, environmentally sustainable community.
Inhalt
A Trace of Rural Roots 1
Dreams of Plenitude 8
Seeds of Never-Seen Dreams 19
The Lay of the Land 22
Silos 30
Mountains to the West 34
Marking Her Days with Grace 42
Snowstice 49
The Seed Box 56
Starts 65
Red, Red Barn 78
Horse Barn, Milk Barn 83
Toppings to Share 87
A Bushel's Worth 99
Cooking for Threshers 104
Rockin' the Harvest 110
Appling 118
Putting By 127
What Goes Down 138
Salvage 145
And the Earth Gives Again 154