Kayann Short

A Bushel's Worth

An Ecobiography

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Produktbeschreibung

From her Colorado farm, Short explores the harvest of food and friendship reaped in this place-based narrative about sustainable communities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Torrey House Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 132mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9781937226190
• ISBN-10: 1937226190
• Artikelnr.: 36630474

Autorenporträt

KAYANN SHORT, Ph.D., is a writer, farmer, teacher, and activist at Stonebridge Farm, an organic community-supported farm in the Rocky Mountain foothills. She has directed memoir and digital storytelling projects with community elders, adult literacy students, and nonprofit organizations. Her writing has appeared in Women's Review of Books, The Bloomsbury Review, Edible Front Range, and Colorado Gardener. More on her ecology-based memoir work is available at www.ecobiography.com. Besides growing delicious food at Stonebridge, Short teaches the important place of organic food production and agricultural preservation in a healthy, environmentally sustainable community.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
A Trace of Rural Roots 1
Dreams of Plenitude 8
Seeds of Never-Seen Dreams 19
The Lay of the Land 22
Silos 30
Mountains to the West 34
Marking Her Days with Grace 42
Snowstice 49
The Seed Box 56
Starts 65
Red, Red Barn 78
Horse Barn, Milk Barn 83
Toppings to Share 87
A Bushel's Worth 99
Cooking for Threshers 104
Rockin' the Harvest 110
Appling 118
Putting By 127
What Goes Down 138
Salvage 145
And the Earth Gives Again 154