Our Farm: Four Seasons with Five Kids on One Family's Farm. Our Farm is a real life look at a family-five kids and three dogs included, and the farm they work together, season by season. Told through the voices of the children and candid photos of them, this inside view of life on their cattle farm is authentic and sometimes surprising. Readers will learn about baling hay, tending cattle, using herding dogs, hunting, spreading manure, and other activities on the Bennett farm, as well as some insight into the culture of living in a rural area of the Midwest. Join Caleb, Chase, Cayne, Grey, and Ali as they take you on a year-long tour of their Ohio farm and you'll see what Chase means when he says, "Farming isn't just about work. It's about a journey we take. It's about family. 144 pages, 7 X 8, hardcover with jacket. To Order By Phone Call Toll Free: 866-596-9982
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Author's Comments, September 3, 2008 Reviewer: Michael from Ohio [color=orange][/color]
Hello, Hannah, and Back40 colleagues,
It's an honor to be a part of the community here (still just getting the feel for it) and finding my own book featured so generously here. OUR FARM just launches this week, and I'm certainly appreciative that viewers here have been curious enough to read a bit about it. Admittedly, I'm more of a farmer-observer than a farmer myself, since my own 100 acres are a pine forest "farm," and my own gardens are more like overly ambitious landscapes and hardscapes...and hard luck stories that I share with the raccoons and deer and rabbits. Admittedly, I'm more of an author than either of the above options.
But OUR FARM, which takes place on a nearby neighbor's farm, is my attempt to create a mirror for those rural young people who rarely see their communities and way of life reflected in a book, as well as a window for those young urban young people who have no real connection to or appreciation of the complexity of a life within the boundaries of the natural world.
The excerpt here on burning the ancient chicken coop was a very dramatic one to record, even though taking pictures of a "huge fire" in complete darkness is well beyond my camera skills.
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But here, just to post something by way of thanks, an outtake from the book. For other pictures, my own Web site has other sample pages and a slide show.
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All best to all! Michael J. Rosen
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