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1) Bloom
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"Rosemary meets Ash at the farmers' market. Ash--precise, pretty, and practically perfect--sells bars of soap in delicate pastel colors, sprinkle-spackled cupcakes stacked on scalloped stands, beeswax candles, jelly jars of honey, and glossy green plants. Ro has never felt this way about another woman; with Ash, she wants to be her and have her in equal measure. But as her obsession with Ash consumes her, she may find she's not the one doing the...
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"A delightful new cozy mystery from USA Todaybestselling author Amanda Flower! There's fowl play afoot on the farm Shiloh Bellamy has saved her family's farm from financial ruin--but now what? She's barely scraping by on the farm's new organic business model and the fall festival she organized to drum up business comes to a screeching halt when the body of a prominent townswoman is discovered underneath a scarecrow in a nearby field. Worst of all,...
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Bailey's Farmer's Market is all abuzz with the impending visit of the Central South Carolina Restaurant Association. Becca is quite excited, especially since her parents are visiting. But when the president of the Association vetoes Becca's strawberry preserves, she finds herself reeling from the snub. After pulling herself together, Becca heads home, only to find the president's body in her kitchen and her mother with bloody hands. Now, Becca has...
5) Farmers
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
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"This photo-illustrated book for early readers explains what farmers do how they work to raise crops and animals"--
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"Becca Robins leads a simple life, making jams and preserves on her very own farm. But when there's a murder in her quaint little town, she puts herself in the line of fire to defend her friend's innocence-and goes from making jam to being in one"--Publisher's web site
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New Society Publishers
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Imagine the typical American farmer. Many people visualize sun-roughened skin, faded overalls, and calloused hands -- hands that are usually white. While there's no doubt the growing trend of organic farming and homesteading is changing how the farmer is portrayed in mainstream media, farmers of color are still largely left out of the picture. The Color of Food seeks to rectify this. By recognizing the critical issues that lie at the intersection...
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2011
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Becca Robbins sells her farm-made jams and preserves at the local farmers' market to make a living. But when a local lovely decides to tie the knot at the same market, someone else decides to make a killing-and only Becca has the down-home know-how to shut the lid on a canny killer.
Becca Robbins sells her farm-made jams and preserves at the local farmers' market to make a living. But when a local lovely decides to tie the knot at the same market, someone else decides to make a killing-and only Becca has the down-home know-how to shut the lid on a canny killer.
9) In the weeds
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Lovelight novels volume 2
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"A grumpy farmer and a no-nonsense social media influencer have another chance at love in this charming romantic comedy. Evelyn St. James isn't the kind of woman you forget. Beckett Porter certainly hasn't. One incredible weekend in Maine, and he's officially a man distracted. He's not unfamiliar with hot and heavy flings, but Evie wove some sort of magic over him during their tumble in the sheets. He can't stop thinking about her laugh. Her hand...
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Stella Crown is slowly recovering from a serious motorcycle accident and the death of her farm manager when into her life comes newly hired farmhand Lucy, a widowed Mennonite woman, and her young daughter, Tess. Lucy really knows her way around a cow, but soon troubling questions about her past emerge.
11) Seeds of revenge
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"The holiday season, and the mood in Winsome is anything but jolly. Megan Sawyer is determined to farm year-round. She's braving a December snowstorm after pitching her greenhouse greens to Philadelphia chefs when she sees a stranger stranded on the side of the road. It's Merry Chance's niece Becca, who's headed to Winsome to sell her 'love potions' at holiday events, or so she thinks. Merry has an ulterior motive in inviting her niece to Winsome,...
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With humor and pathos, Forrest Pritchard recounts his ambitious and often hilarious endeavors to save his family's seventh-generation farm in the Shenandoah Valley. Through many a trial and error, he not only saves Smith Meadows from insolvency but turns it into a leading light in the sustainable, grass-fed, organic farm-to-market community. There is nothing young Farmer Pritchard won't try. Whether he's selling firewood and straw, raising free-range...
13) Shoeless Joe
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
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One day while out in his corn field, Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella hears a voice saying, "If you build it, he will come." "He," of course, is Ray's hero, Shoeless Joe Jackson. "It" is a baseball stadium, which Ray carves out of his corn field.
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It is 1917, in that sliver of border land that divides Georgia from Alabama. Dispossessed farmer Pearl Jewett ekes out a hardscrabble existence with his three young sons: Cane (the eldest; handsome; intelligent); Cob (short; heavy set; a bit slow); and Chimney (the youngest; thin; ill-tempered). Several hundred miles away in southern Ohio, a farmer by the name of Ellsworth Fiddler lives with his son, Eddie, and his wife, Eula. After Ellsworth is swindled...
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"Twenty-something advice columnist and amateur sleuth Sissy Yoder loves helping out at her Aunt Bethel's Sunflower Café in Yoder, Kansas. It connects her to family, to the close-knit community--and to the suspicious events that always seem to bubble beneath small-town life . . . The unusual death of local herb farmer, Ginger Reed, is the talk of Yoder. Naturally, Sissy is intrigued. The official report classifies Ginger's demise as an accident, concluding...
16) A killer maize
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The last person Becca Robbins expects to run into at the Swayton County Fall Festival is her ex-husband, Scott Triplett, who's operating a shooting gallery. Honesty was not always Scott's policy, and their unexpected reunion becomes further complicated when the festival becomes a crime scene. On Becca's second day there, the Ferris wheel operator is found hanging from his rickety ride, dead from a gunshot. Now Becca begins to worry her ex may be involved....
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After a tragic loss three years ago, Grayson Tyler left his life in New York City behind and started over in the rolling hills of the California coast. One day, Lori Sullivan barges into his life and promptly blows his emotionless and solitary world to shreds, driving him crazy as only a woman nicknamed "Naughty" can.
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2011
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"With savory fruits, crisp vegetables, fresh herbs and more, the Toledo Farmers' Market attests to the rich and bountiful goodness available in Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan. Join historian Trini L. Wenninger as she guides you through the market's history, from its humble origins in the 1830s through its survival during rough times in the Glass City. Select the ripest tomatoes from Konstantinos's stall, crunch into one of the seventy different...
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An inspiring glimpse into the struggles of a young Amish farm family
Agriculture continues to be the largest industry in the United States with over 2.2 million farms. Amazingly, well over 100,000 new small family farms have sprung up in the past few years . . . and almost no one noticed.
Why Cows Need Names follows one young Amish family as they dream about and then struggle to establish a profitable and quintessentially American
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"An eye-opening memoir of working-class poverty in the American Midwest. During Sarah Smarsh's turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the forces of cyclical poverty and the country's changing economic policies solidified her family's place among the working poor. By telling the story of her life and the lives of the people she loves, Smarsh challenges us to look more closely at the class divide in our country and examine the myths about...