Women of the Harvest: Inspiring Stories of Contemporary Farmers - Hardcover

Bollinger, Holly

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0760321841 ISBN 13: 9780760321843

Verlag: Voyageur Press, 2007

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Book by Bollinger Holly

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You can forget that old steryotype of the farm-wife wearing an apron and making pies while her husband plogs the furrows...the uS Census shows a 27 per cent jump in the number of women calling themselves farmers... Women of the Harvets profiles 17 of them who do it, not just for the good food, but for "the connection it provides between the land and the animals to their souls". --Mail Tribune

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Up with the rooster, to bed with the sun, and if the farmers a woman, its a good bet theres always more work waiting. Holding household and family together, women farmers daily, quietly perform heroic labors just to eke a livelihood out of the land. Women have always farmed, when death or war left them to fend for themselves, but today they might choose to farm, and, in a time when farming is a shrinking occupation, their choices have expanded. Some women are only at home on the range; others, more hearth-bound, see the farm as an extension of home and family life. Some farm to feed their families; others, running huge corporate operations, farm to feed nations.

These are the farmers that Women of the Harvest celebrates. In twelve illustrated profiles, the book introduces readers to women who work the land, raising livestock and crops, and, in doing so, uphold and transform a tradition as old as agriculture itself. Their stories, drawn from farms across the country, are truly in the American grain.

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• Verlag: Voyageur Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0760321841
• ISBN 13: 9780760321843
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160