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The blueberry years : a memoir of farm and family / Jim Minick.
- Title
- The blueberry years : a memoir of farm and family / Jim Minick.
- Author
- Minick, Jim, 1964-
- Publication
- New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2010.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | SB63.M64 A3 2010 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiii, 328 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "The Blueberry Years is a mouthwatering and delightful memoir based on Jim Minick's experiences as an organic blueberry farmer. This story of one couple, one farm, and one thousand bushes transports readers so that they experience the joys and frustrations of creating and operating one of the mid-Atlantic's first certified-organic, pick-your-own blueberry farms. Written by a farmer who also is a poet, The Blueberry Years follows in the vein of The Omnivore's Dilemma or Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, where lyrical writing captures a well-told story about food, family, and the choices we make with every bite"--Cover, p. 2.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Autobiography
- Autobiographies
- Biographies
- Autobiographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- PART I. Root and Seed (1991-1995) -- Chapter 1. Meeting the Berries -- Chapter 2. Meeting the Field -- Chapter 3. Blue Blood -- Blue Interlude Our Hero -- Chapter 4. Test Plot -- Blue Interlude Latin Laurel Hells -- Chapter 5. Not to Bee -- Chapter 6. Meeting joe -- Chapter 7. Cleared Field -- Blue Interlude New Farmers and Failure -- Chapter 8. Joe's Holey Spreader -- Chapter 9. Homestead Hint Number 1: Forget the Rope -- Chapter 10. Spying -- Blue Interlude Blues in History -- Chapter 11. What We Fear -- Chapter 12. Not-Manual -- PART II. Grow (1995-1996) -- Chapter 13. "Grow, Little Plant" -- Blue Interlude Woking off of the Farm -- Chapter 14. College of Mulch and Sciences -- Blue Interlude Roots and Fungi -- Chapter 15. Homestead Hint Number 2: Throw Out the Electric Clippers -- Chapter 16. Homesteading Alone? -- Chapter 17. Relief -- Chapter 18. Certified -- Blue Interlude Meditation on Organic -- Chapter 19. Meeting the Mennonites -- Chapter 20. Bees, Blooms, and the First Berry -- PART III. Fruit (1997-1999) -- Chapter 21. Filling the Field -- Blue Interlunde Pickling with HD -- Chapter 22. First Official Picker -- Chapter 23. Stricken -- Chapter 24. How To -- Blue Interlude Frederick Coville -- Chapter 25. Wired -- Chapter 26. My Folks and Manny -- Blue Interlude Elizabeth White -- Chapter 27. Handful of Jewels: A Day in the Life -- Chapter 28. Shaking Free -- Blue Interlude Other Colors -- Chapter 29. Hungry -- Chapter 30. Berry Hut -- Chapter 31. Worms -- Blue Interlude Blues Evolution -- Chapter 32. Affinity -- Chapter 33. Forgetfulness -- Chapter 34. Don't You Know -- Chapter 35. Religious Moments -- Chapter 36. New Religion -- Blue Interlude The Benefits of Organic -- Chapter 37. To Market -- Blue Interlude Eating Local -- Chapter 38. Homestead Hint Number 3: Spray or Pray -- Chapter 39. Sweetness -- Chapter 40. Pursuing Art -- Chapter 41. Thursdays with Brian, Fridays with Chico -- Chapter 42. Scars -- Chapter 43. End of a Season -- PART IV. Prune (2000) -- Chapter 44. Pruning -- Chapter 45. Different Dream? -- Chapter 46. Uncle Nathan -- Chapter 47. What Else? -- Chapter 48. Hired Help -- Chapter 49. Regulars -- Blue Interlude Blue Lit -- Chapter 50. Buckets -- Chapter 51. Variety -- Blue Interlude Blue Movies -- Chapter 52. Kids -- Chapter 53. Spies and Lies -- Chapter 54. Jazz of a Perfect Weed -- Blue Interlude Blue Songs -- Chapter 55. Fourth of July -- Chapter 56. American Sushi -- Chapter 57. What They Lacked -- Blue Interlude The Benefits of Blue -- Chapter 58. Certain Tenderness -- Blue Interlude Blues Today -- PART V. Harvest (2001-2002) -- Chapter 59. Frozen -- Blue Interlude Our Problems -- Chapter 60. Bit -- Chapter 61. Still They Come -- Blue Interlude Listening at Whitesbog -- Chapter 62. Critters -- Chapter 63. Joe's Blues -- Chapter 64. Why Move? -- Chapter 65. PA Picking Again -- Blue Interlude Costs -- Chapter 66. Searching for a Single Berry.
- ISBN
- 9780312571429 (alk. paper)
- 0312571429 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2010021687
- OCLC
- 526077066
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library