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Century Farm: One Hundred Years on a Family Farm


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No. of pages 32

Published: 2010

Great for age 6-12 years

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The Peterson family farm is one hundred years old and about to enter a new century. Here, in wonderful family anecdotes, the author shares the story of the farm as it grew from a barn and house and granary in the 1890s to a thriving dairy farm in the 1990s. There has been plenty of hard work--sawing down the trees to erect the first buildings, the endless cycle of planting and harvesting, chopping firewood to keep the house warm--but there has also been golf practice on the pasture land, Sunday drives in the family car, and cross-country skiing in the meadows. Over the past hundred years many things on the farm have changed, but many things have stayed the same. There is still one family working together to make the farm a viable business. There is still one kitchen where cookies are baked and meals are cooked to feed family and friends and those who help on the farm. Filled with photos selected from a century's worth of family albums as well as dramatic shots from recent years, this NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book provides a glimpse into the past and the future of one American family farm.

 

 

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published in 2010 by Astra Publishing House .

Cris Peterson is the author of Century Farm, Harvest Year, and Horsepower. She lives in Grantsburg, Wisconsin. Alvis Upitis is one of the photographers of "County/USA: 24 Hours in Rural America. "He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

 

"Perhaps most valuable is the silent underscoring rewards of family bonds and the fruits of hard work - Publishers Weekly Though farming techniques and machinery have changed, household appliances and fashions have radically changed in a century, the Petersons still catch fish in the same lake, all hand still pitch to help birth a calf and, after the annual planting in the same plot of land the corn still reaches for the sun and whispers in the wind - Publishers Weekly"