Round of a Country Year: A Farmer's Day Book
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (778 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1619029243 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-27 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Kline records statewide meetings of district supervisors, knows which speakers and committee chairmen are in the pockets of the oil and gas lobbyists, stands up and says his part.At a time when America’s population is being turned toward the benefits of small, local farming practices on our health and our environment, Kline’s daybook offers a striking example of the ways in which we are connected to our environment, and the pleasure we can take in daily work and stewardship.. Under David’s attentive gaze and in his clear, insightful prose the reader is enveloped in the rhythms of farm life; not only the planting and harvesting of crops throughout the year, but the migration patterns of birds, the health and virility of honeybees left nearly to their own devices, the songs and silences of frogs and toads, the disappearance and resurgence of praying mantises in fields-turned woodlands, the search for monarch butterflies in the milkweed. David Kline has been called a twentieth-century Henry David Thoreau” by his friends and contemporaries; an apt comparison given the quiet exuberance with which he records the quotidian goings-on on his organic family farm. There’s rhythm in community, tooneighbors gathering to plant potatoes or to maintain an eld
Instead, Amish farmer David Kline shares with readers a life wholly made of these fundamental things.” San Francisco ChronicleDavid Kline's vision goes beyond 20/20 into the realm of A/Z, where he eloquently uses all of the letters in between to delight us with his insights from his wide travels at home. Praise for Great Possessions: An Amish Farmer’s JournalThis book is a quiet paean to things lost, a set of values we've put in the attic.”New York Times Book ReviewThis journal of an Amish farmer - an observant, well-read naturalist - disarms before it begins. The acknowledgements start off, I am deeply grateful to my entire family for their generous offers to do the evening milking without my help s