1. John Clare was the son of a poor farm laborer from Northamptonshire and would doubtless have remained anonymous had he not possessed an extraordinary ability to express in poetic language the ...

It’s fall, and everyone’s harvesting! Farmers are reaping the fruits of their labor — and these two books provide a great introduction to life on the farm. A companion to “The Farm That ...

Books on food and farming: “Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership” by Brea Baker (top left), “The Wisdom of Sheep: Observations from a ...

Brox’s three books about her family’s farm in Massachusetts, published individually some two decades ago, are a paean to a way of life once considered the bedrock of America and now mostly ...

Currently aged 85, Dr Austin O’Sullivan has lived an interesting life. The founding father of the Irish Agricultural Museum in Johnstown Castle, Co Wexford, he had to fight tooth and nail at times to ...

PLEASANT VALLEY—Louis Bromfield—Harpers ($3).After nearly 15 years' absence from the U.S., mostly in France, Novelist Louis Bromfield returned in 1938 to his native Ohio valley ...

Nora Lange's novel "Us Fools" follows two young sisters growing up in the Midwest during the 1980's farming crisis. They're trying to figure out their lives while looking out for each other.

Penn Township author Ron Kirkwood spent 17 days in 2022 at the National Archives in Washington, DC, scouring hundreds of ...