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Two Poems by Jonathan Humble

Masterclass The shed was an apex all-wood home-built construction, erected that furnace of a summer when we burnt in the...
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Cropduster, by Mark Jones

I spent the next few days kind of mulling about. Trucks came for bales around noon, but I learned to...
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The big list of farm books
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The Largest List of Farm Books

Farming is an essential part of the human story. Although the number of farmers is declining world wide, many people...
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Best Rural Novels
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Best Rural Novels: A List of 10 to Get Started

Ryan Dennis is the author of The Beasts They Turned Away, a novel set on an Irish dairy farm. He shares...
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tractor with turf
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Two poems by John Noonan

Dark turf The breeze stirred ferns on the high bank. I watched you drop down the layers of Cloneen bog, then...
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Isle of Skye
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Half-clouded Sky, by Cassie Smith-Christmas

Rhona started leaving nearly every night after Aonghas was asleep, like she had the night The Silence had begun.  There...
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Amish barn
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Three Poems by Daril Bentley

Around Troupsburg The night unwinds its skein of silver-blue wool around the moon and trains its face to glow upon...
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old barn
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This Life by Rachel Vigier

1 In one day, six months ago, Louis Paradis became a husband and a farmer. He had the date engraved...
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Scuba diver black and white
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Down Under by Jon Pyatt

Ninety feet beneath the surface of the Coral Sea, in the inky dark of night, hovering just above a reef...
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Bayou
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The End of Summer by JD Clapp

Daddy sat up in a tangled mess of damp sheets. He reached over to the nightstand and grabbed a Camel....
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trees
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SERIAL MEMOIR: First Days on the Peninsula by BJ Omanson (Part 1)

What follows is a selection from the opening chapters of BJ Omanson’s memoir Three Years on the Nowhere Road in...
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Combine in "Of Farm and Family"
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Of Farm and Family by Deb Stark

Neil knew he should be the one to start the neighbour’s combining this year. At seventy-nine, his father’s neck is...
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