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    This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm
    This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm
    This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm
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    This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm

    Written by Ted Genoways

    Narrated by Christopher Solimene

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    The family farm lies at the heart of our national identity, and yet its future is in peril. Rick Hammond grew up on a farm, and for forty years he has raised cattle and crops on his wife's fifth-generation homestead in Nebraska, in hopes of passing it on to their four children. But as the handoff nears, their small family farm-and their entire way of life-are under siege. Beyond the threat posed by rising corporate ownership of land and livestock, the Hammonds are confronted by encroaching pipelines, groundwater depletion, climate change, the fickle demands of the marketplace, and shifting trade policies.

    Following the Hammonds from harvest to harvest, Ted Genoways explores the rapidly changing world of small, traditional farming operations. He creates a vivid and nuanced portrait of a radically new landscape and one family's fight to preserve their legacy and the life they love.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateSep 19, 2017
    ISBN9781681688022
    This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm
    Author

    Ted Genoways

    Ted Genoways served as the editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review from 2003 to 2012, during which time the magazine won six National Magazine Awards. He is a contributing editor at Mother Jones and an editor-at-large at OnEarth, and is a winner of the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. He is a fourth-generation Nebraskan and lives in Lincoln.

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    • 4/5
      An interesting short history of agriculture in the US and current events. Author's political bias comes through at times.
    • 5/5
      I was nervous starting this book (for a local book club I recently joined) as my family lost the family farm during the 1980s Farm Crisis and I was afraid of the memories the book would conjure. However, such was not the case. In fact, I enjoyed learning about the intricacies of farming in the 21st century, things that were not part of my life 50-70 years ago, when I was growing up on a farm. My, how it is different and infinitely more scary today! I recommend this book for anyone with an agriculture background.
    • 4/5
      This was great! I live in an very productive corn and soybean county in Illinois, where the ditches are for drainage instead of irrigation, so it was really interesting to read about Nebraska farming.
    • 4/5
      Some very interesting facts on farming in the United States and the world economy as it relates to crop production. Got a little dry at times
    • 5/5
      This was a fascinating story of a year the author spent with a farm family right in the middle of current headlines. I was educational as well as just plain absorbing---you really get to know this extended family and what they, in turn, mean for all of us as a source of our food.