Download or read book The New Farm written by Brent Preston and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “must-read” memoir of human-scale agriculture offers an insider’s view of today’s food system by a leading voice in sustainable farming (Daniel Boulud). After years of working at the ends of the earth in human rights and development, Brent Preston and his wife were die-hard city dwellers. But when their second child arrived, the shine came off urban living. In 2003 they bought a hundred acres and a rundown farmhouse, determined to build a farm that would sustain their family, nourish their community, heal their environment—and turn a profit. The New Farm is Preston’s memoir of a decade of toil and perseverance. Farming is a complex and precarious business, and they made plenty of mistakes along the way. But as they learned how to grow food, and to succeed at the business of farming, they also found that a small, sustainable, organic farm could be an engine for change, a path to a more just and sustainable food system. Today, The New Farm supplies top restaurants, supports community food banks, hosts events with leading chefs, and grows extraordinary produce. Told with humor and heart, The New Farm is a joy, a passionate book by an important new voice.
Download or read book Barn 8 written by Deb Olin Unferth and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unforgettably exuberant and potent novel by a writer at the height of her powers Two auditors for the U.S. egg industry go rogue and conceive a plot to steal a million chickens in the middle of the night—an entire egg farm’s worth of animals. Janey and Cleveland—a spirited former runaway and the officious head of audits—assemble a precarious, quarrelsome team and descend on the farm on a dark spring evening. A series of catastrophes ensues. Deb Olin Unferth’s wildly inventive novel is a heist story of a very unusual sort. Swirling with a rich array of voices, Barn 8 takes readers into the minds of these renegades: a farmer’s daughter, a former director of undercover investigations, hundreds of activists, a forest ranger who suddenly comes upon forty thousand hens, and a security guard who is left on an empty farm for years. There are glimpses twenty thousand years into the future to see what chickens might evolve into on our contaminated planet. We hear what hens think happens when they die. In the end the cracked hearts of these indelible characters, their earnest efforts to heal themselves, and their radical actions will lead them to ruin or revelation. Funny, whimsical, philosophical, and heartbreaking, Barn 8 ultimately asks: What constitutes meaningful action in a world so in need of change? Unferth comes at this question with striking ingenuity, razor-sharp wit, and ferocious passion. Barn 8 is a rare comic-political drama, a tour de force for our time.
Download or read book Big House Little House Back House Barn written by Thomas C. Hubka and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2004 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twentieth anniversary edition of the classic architectural study of the development of the connected farm buildings made by 19th-century New Englanders, which offers insight into the people who made them.
Download or read book A Barn in New England written by Joseph Monninger and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When this memoirist, his girlfriend, and her son move into a New Hampshire farm that needs love and care, fixing it up becomes an art form.
Download or read book H and R Book of Barn Conversions written by Ovolo Publishing, Limited and published by Ovolo Books. This book was released on 2007-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brand new selections of barn conversions in one of our most successful books. The appetite for barns with both traditional and contemporary fi nishes continues unabated. This book is illustrated with hundreds of high quality colour photographs and the full stories of the conversions as well as design, building and supplier contact details.
Download or read book Preserving Old Barns written by John Porter and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preserving Old Barns is a wonderful resource for barn owners to assess and care for their special structures, which also celebrates the history and beauty of old barns. This well-illustrated second edition features stunning, full-color photographs from Lowell Fewster, expanded text adding over one hundred pages of new information from author John Porter, and barn preservation techniques from timber framer Arron Sturgis. It provides a practical understanding of the history, function, and preservation of old barns.
Download or read book Spoon written by Barn the Spoon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the history of spoon carving and provides tips for the craft, outlining the tools that are needed and providing instructions for making such items as a basic spoon and a turned spoon.
Download or read book At Home in The American Barn written by James B. Garrison and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Home in the American Barn examines the fascinating possibilities for living and adaptive reuse provided by the expansive spaces and rough-hewn look of these traditional structures. Nationwide, Americans are turning to structures such as the barn with a mind to renovating them to fit the lifestyles of today, redesigning these often-wonderful places of the past into residential spaces. At Home in the American Barn embraces the dream to slow things down and return to basics and shares some success stories, as made plain by the buildings themselves.This richly illustrated volume focuses on the barn as home. Each of the structures featured has been adapted from its original utilitarian purpose to allow for comfortable, joyous living. Built at first as places for work, barns nevertheless often demonstrate fine craftsmanship and artistry. This volume emphasizes the rare beauty of these structures and shows throughout elegant solutions for living in these beautifully imagined homes. Soaring rafters here allow for dramatic chandeliers in one home or a wall of magnificent bookcases in another. Spaces that are unconventional in a traditional domestic sense here serve as springboards for inspiration that allow for, in one home, a spiral staircase of fantasy made from hand-planed wood, and, in another, a wall of glass that lets in the sun. At Home in The American Barn shows the way that this can be done successfully and artfully.
Download or read book Field Guide to New England Barns and Farm Buildings written by Thomas Durant Visser and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2000-10-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A generously illustrated handbook for identifying and understanding structures that symbolize the region's unique cultural and historical landscape
Download or read book The Hundred Year Barn written by Patricia MacLachlan and published by Katherine Tegen Books. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1919, this barn was built by townspeople, family, and friends. It has stood for a hundred years and will stand for a hundred more. The barn is a symbol of peace and stability and caring and community. In this joyful celebration of a hundred-year barn, Newbery Medal–winning author Patricia MacLachlan and award-winning artist Kenard Pak spin a tender and timeless story about the simple moments that make up a lifetime.
Download or read book Barn Club written by Robert Somerville and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In today’s ego-techno-centred world, Robert Somerville’s . . . Barn Club approach is a way forward that utilizes local traditions, local materials, and local hands to create a built environment that is more harmonious with the natural world and of course more beautiful.”—Jack A. Sobon, architect, timber framer, and author of Hand Hewn “Somerville knows more about wooden barn construction than almost anyone alive.”—The Telegraph Natural history meets traditional hand craft in this celebration of the elm tree and community spirit. When renowned craftsman Robert Somerville moved to Hertfordshire in southern England, he discovered an unexpected landscape rich with wildlife and elm trees. Nestled within London’s commuter belt, this wooded farmland inspired Somerville, a lifelong woodworker, to revive the ancient tradition of hand-raising barns. Barn Club follows the building of Carley Barn over the course of one year. Volunteers from all walks of life joined Barn Club, inspired to learn this ancient skill of building elm barns by hand, at its own quiet pace and in the company of others, while using timber from the local woods. The tale of the elm tree in its landscape is central to Barn Club. Its natural history, historic importance, and remarkable survival make for a fascinating story. This is a tale of forgotten trees, a local landscape, and an ancient craft. This book includes sixteen pages of color photographs, and black and white line drawings of techniques and traditional timber frame barns feature throughout. Perfect for fans of Norwegian Wood and The Hidden Life of Trees.
Download or read book Tuttle s Red Barn written by Richard Michelson and published by Putnam Publishing Group. This book was released on 2007 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining woodcut illustrations with inspirational prose, this picture book follows the Tuttle family, who, through the years, witnessed many historical events as they passed down their farm from generation to generation.
Download or read book Charlotte s Web New in the Barn written by Catherine Hapka and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Wilbur gets too big for the Arable house, he moves to a new farm and wonders if he will make any friends.
Download or read book Barn written by and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001-09-24 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For two centuries, a New England barn watches history unfold. The elegant oil paintings and lyrical text capture the beauty of a barn faithfully keeping vigil generation after generation.
Download or read book Old Barn Plans written by Richard Rawson and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Old Barn Book written by Robin Langley Sommer and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pictorial tribute to North America's vanishing rural heritage, as seen in the variety, simplicity, and homely beauty of old barns across the continent.
Download or read book Open the Barn Door Find a Cow written by and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1993-04-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of OPEN THE GARAGE DOOR comes the hit lift-the-flap board book all about your favorite farm animals! Spend a day on the farm and explore all the animal sights and sounds! Featuring 10 lift-the-flaps and a variety of barnyard favorites, including horses, chickens, cows, and pigs, this board book is a fun-filled introduction to life on the farm.
