Community Farm

Farm business literature is full of memoirs offering entertaining stories with some basic cattle or produce advice but no real substance for the reader. Big Ideas, Small Farm is not another feel good farm memoir devoid of authentic advice, hope, or insights. This book is different; it is about results. Big Ideas, Small Farm is about growing small farm profitability. This book is part self-help and part marketing strategies because marketing tips and theories are effective when the people implementing them believe in them. Small farm marketing is a mindset as much as it is a practice. This ...

Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote the Inspector Ramsay series featuring a talented, brilliant detective—now available for the first time in the US. The youth theater cast are in their places but Gus Lynch’s female lead, Gabriella, is missing—that is, until she’s found in the...

🕯️ Discover MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER Rosie Clarke's next gritty instalment of her bestselling Blackberry Farm family saga series...❤️ Perfect for fans of Lizzie Lane, Fenella J Miller and Patricia McBride💔 Nothing is ever easy on Blackberry Farm! Cambridgeshire – 1944 Pam Talbot...

This is the story of Miss White, a woman who lived in the author’s village 80 years ago, a pioneer who realised her ambition to become a farmer during the Second World War, and how she worked to become accepted within this community. Nicola Chester, too, dreamed of becoming a farmer but working with horses was the only path open to her. Was it easier for women to become farmers in the 1940s than it is now?

An inspiration for the creation of houses of prayer around the world, The Grace Outpouring is a captivating account of spiritual renewal on a Welsh hillside. When Roy Godwin turned his back on a lucrative consulting job to lead the quiet retreat center Ffald-y-Brenin in West Wales, he wasn’t...

She has one season to save her farm. He has nowhere else to go. Susannah Zook has held her late husband’s farm together through sheer will and sleepless nights. But with harvest season bearing down and fences falling faster than she can mend them, the young widow is running out of time—and too proud to admit it. When Bishop Harlan sends a quiet stranger from another district to help bring in the crops, Susannah wants nothing to do with charity. Titus Hershberger is the youngest of five brothers with no land, no inheritance, and no place to call his own. He shows up with one bag and a ...

'A surprising page-turner, full of humour and startling details' THE TIMES 'If I read a better history this year, I will be lucky' TOM HOLLAND 'An astonishing tour de force’ SPECTATOR Shortlisted for the HWA Nonfiction Crown Award Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize From Peter Marshall...

From a “graceful, luminous writer with an eye for detail” (Minneapolis Star Tribune), this riveting memoir explores a year on a sustainable farm. When Kristin Kimball left New York City to interview a dynamic young farmer named Mark, her world changed. On an impulse, she shed her city self...

From the bestselling author of Eventide, The Tie That Binds is a powerfully eloquent tribute to the arduous demands of rural America, and of the tenacity of the human spirit. Colorado, January 1977. Eighty-year-old Edith Goodnough lies in a hospital bed, IV taped to the back of her hand, police...

Their fathers haven’t spoken in years. Now the bishop says they have to fix it themselves. When a storm brings down the old oak tree straddling the property line between the Lengacher and Hostettler farms, both families claim the timber. The fathers—stubborn, proud, and nursing a grudge that started with a survey stake a generation ago—refuse to settle it. Bishop Harlan has had enough. He tells them to work it out on their own. And somehow, it falls to their eldest children to negotiate. Patience Lengacher has run her father’s household since her mother passed. She is practical, ...

When Maeve McQuaid loses her boyfriend and her gardening job in one fell swoop, fate intervenes in the shape of Beth, an elderly lady carrying a gap-year-size backpack. She turns out to be the owner of the mysterious Druid's Oak Farm in North Yorkshire and offers her a job. The farm is an artist's community which has become tired and run down, much like its inhabitants. The Elizabethan building needs to be saved but Beth is slowly going bankrupt. Can Maeve make a formal garden from an overgrown shambles? Can her enthusiasm lift everyone out of their lethargy or will they rise up against her...

It’s Christmas in Willow Heights! Robert and Rita have finally moved to Willow Heights. Mary Elle is ecstatic to have her best friend nearby and begins to plan their annual Christmas party. Bob and Rita have a secret that they’ve been keeping from everyone, including Mary Elle. Will this secret tear their lifelong friendship apart during the holiday season? Will the secret be a blessing in disguise? What new adventures and trials await the gang in Willow Heights? Find out in this third book of the series!

'A gripping cozy crime with lots of heart.' Alice Castle Former rockstar Tarquin Gold thought he had left his wild days behind when he traded in his glamorous lifestyle to become a farmer, but his dreams of a peaceful life come crashing down when murder rocks his newly opened glamping site. As...

"Beautifully written, impeccably researched, and told with the air of suspense that few writers can handle, Wastelands is a story I wish I had written." —From the Foreword by John Grisham The once idyllic coastal plain of North Carolina is home to a close-knit, rural community that for more...

A barn dance and a body at the Honey Farm - it’s a sticky situation! Winnie Cooper thought the hardest part of running the Herb & Hive Café would be keeping her Jack Russell, Cookie, out of the kitchen. But at the Hillside Honey Farm — launching her new Bee’s Knees Collection of herb infused honey with a Barn Dance — her night of sweet success turns sour. When a glamorous food blogger collapses and the slick honey broker drops dead, the dance floor is a crime scene, the cocktails are suspect, and Winnie’s café is at the center of small‑town suspicion. Was it a tragic mix-up…...

From the author of the beloved bestseller The Dirty Life, this “superb memoir chronicles the evolution of a farm, marriage, family, and her own personal identity with humor, insight, and candor” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) detailing life on Essex Farm—a 500-acre farm that produces...

When duty brings them together, will love convince them to stay? For years, Martha Lapp has blessed her Amish community by bringing lonely hearts together. Though she never claimed the title of matchmaker, many happy marriages owed their beginnings to Martha’s gentle guidance. As a terminal illness takes over, the community works together to care for her until her final breath. Even on her deathbed, Martha’s eyes can’t help but notice a potential match beginning to form. During the reading of Martha’s will, one of the beloved community members who cared for her in her last days ...

To marry her is to marry her family's lies. A Man Seeking a Peaceful Future Finds Himself Courting a Woman Whose Family is Hiding a Shameful Past Jacob Stoltzfus, now a respected community man, is finally ready to remarry. He begins courting Leah Zook, a quiet and pious young woman from a neighboring district. But as he gets to know her family, he senses their extreme piety is a mask for a deep-seated fear. His investigation reveals they are not who they seem, but are hiding a secret and shameful past from a more progressive Amish sect, forcing Jacob to confront his own prejudices. Her ...

Winter in the small Canadian town of Solace is a season of hibernation. But this year, the snowfall brings a series of accidental encounters that will shake up the lives—and loves—of an old man, a student on the run and an abandoned dog. It is deep winter, 1969. As the Vietnam War drives...

“Elegiac, funny, warm and wise, The Wisdom of Sheep will delight country folk and city dwellers alike.” —Katherine May A touching, wise and surprising chronicle of the rich inner lives of animals, drawn from Rosamund Young’s extraordinary lifetime as an organic farmer We talk a lot about...