Wisdom of the Last Farmer Harvesting Legacies from the Land

Name: Wisdom of the Last Farmer Harvesting Legacies from the Land
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ISBN: 9781439182420

ISBN-10: 1439182426

ISBN-13: 9781439182420

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Authors: David Mas Masumoto

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It was when David Mas Masumoto's father had a stroke on the sprawling fields of their farm that the son looked with new eyes on the land where he and generations of his family have toiled for decades. Masumoto -- an organic farmer working the land in California's Central Valley -- farms stories as he farms peaches. In Wisdom of the Last Farmer, an impassioned memoir of revitalization and redemption, he finds the natural connections between generation and succession, fathers and children, booms and declines as he tells the story of his family and their farm. He brings us to the rich earth of America's Fruit Basket, under the vine trellises and canes where grapes are grown, and to the fruit…

Book details

List price: $21.00
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 6/1/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.44" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Foreword




Why Farm?



Family Heirloom



The Price of Perfection



Second Sons



The Last Orchard



When Things Break



Calling Your Father a Weed



Living with Insults



Resilience



Learning to Lean, Walking on Uneven Ground



Shoveling Sand



Back in the Saddle Again



Farm Works



Season of Dirt



Perfect Junk



The Art of Going Slow-French Plowing



Hardpan Economics



Falling Down



Planting Memories



Welding



Killing an Orchard to Save the Farm



The Sweat Thesis



The Hands of Caregivers



Farming with Ghosts



Missing Stories



Fields of Gold



Succession



Places Where We Belong



How Many Harvests Left?



Coming Home



Names We Wear



Abandoning a Vineyard



Preservation



Day Is Done


Acknowledgments