"The Limits of Rural Capitalism" is an important study of the social and economic development of the Municipality of Montcalm, a largely French-Canadian community in southern Manitoba. It challenges the view in prairie historiography that agriculture had commercialized before th…
"Beyond bacon pays homage to the humble hog by teaching you how to make more than one hundred delicious paleo recipes featuring cuts from the entire animal. There are photos for each recipe. Recreates dishes perfected generations ago in a healthy way.--From back cover.
A memoir of love and reckoning. A story of love, family, and the fight to keep the great plains from running dry. Julene Bair has inherited part of a farming empire and fallen in love with a rancher from Kansas's beautiful Smoky Valley. She means to create a family, provide her …
"Julene Bair has inherited part of a farming empire and fallen in love with a rancher from Kansas's beautiful Smoky Valley. She means to create a family, provide her son with the father he longs for, and preserve the Bair farm for the next generation, honoring her own father's w…
"Hang on to your land!" Julene Bair took her father's words to heart as a young girl. Even though she left Kansas as soon as she could for adventures in San Francisco and the Mojave Desert, she knew how much hard work and sacrifice her parents and grandparents had put into build…
This book "provides the hard-learned nuts-and-bolts of rural living from city folk who were initially out of their depth."--Page 4 of cover.
Written from the vantage point of a farmer-ecologist, The Emergent Agriculture is a fascinating conversation about the future of food. Arguing that industrial food production is incompatible with the realities of nature, science and ethics, this collection of fourteen lyrical es…
