Research Catalog

Title

The round of a country year : a farmer's day book / David Kline ; preface by Wendell Berry.

Author

Kline, David

Publication

• Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2017.
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

Berry, Wendell, 1934-

Description

xxiii, 197 pages; 21 cm

Summary

"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. Under Kline's attentive gaze and in his clear, insightful prose, the reader is engaged by the rhythms of farm life: not only the planting and harvesting of crops throughout the year, but also the migration patterns of birds, the health and virility of honeybees left 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. There's rhythm in community, too--neighbors gathering to plant potatoes or to maintain an elderly friend's tomato garden, organic farming conferences around family dining tables or university panels. At a time when America's population is being slowly turned toward the benefits of small, local farming practices on our health and our environment, Kline's daybook offers a striking example of the ancient ways in which we are connected to our environment, and the pleasure we can take in daily work and stewardship" --Cover, page 4.

Subject

• Kline, David
• Amish farmers > Holmes County > Diaries
• Amish farmers
• Ohio > Holmes County

Genre/Form

• Diaries
• Diaries.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Fall -- Winter -- Spring -- Summer -- Fall.

ISBN

• 9781619029248
• 1619029243

LCCN

^^2017015112

OCLC

960838836

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library