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 ...

She baked bread, loved funerals—and poisoned her family. A meticulously researched, propulsive true-crime biography of Martha Wise, the Ohio widow who slipped arsenic into food and water in 1925—leaving three dead and dozens ill. Step into the packed courthouse. Hear the confession. See whether the Devil really “told her to do it.” If you love Ann Rule or In Cold Blood, you’ll tear through this. Includes trial details, period newspaper research, and newly clarified timelines. Reads like a thriller—documented like history. In the winter of 1924-1925, quiet Medina County, Ohio, ...

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?

From the bestselling author of Christmas in Snow Falls comes a heartwarming holiday read that’s perfect for fans of Jenny Hale, Sheila Roberts, Debbie Macomber, and Jill Shalvis. When corporate marketing executive Emma Parker rushes home to Snow Falls after her father breaks his leg, she expects a quick visit to get the family Christmas tree farm back on track. What she doesn't expect is Trace McCarthy—the quiet, nature-loving farm manager who's been there since they were teenagers, who seems to know the perfect tree for every family, and who remembers things about her that she's long ...

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, ...

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...

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...

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...

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!

God is good, all the time. Jim Wilson was born in 1927 and raised in a Depression-era farming family. At the age of 16, at the height of World War II, he became the primary breadwinner for his parents and four younger siblings. At age 17, eager to fight for his country, he enlisted in the Navy. Germany surrendered while he was in the recruiting office, and the war was over by the time he entered boot camp. But God had a plan for Jim Wilson in the US Navy.

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...

"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...

Don’t miss this cozy murder mystery, perfect for fans of Clare Chase, Liz Fielding and Merryn Allingham. Pre-order now! 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...

'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...

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...

A single-dad cowboy, a woman with a secret who left him, and a second chance at love neither of them expects… A sweet, clean, wholesome romance with a happily-ever-after! Frightened by a possible stalker, a big-city marketing manager flees to her uncle's B & B in the small town where she once felt safe. A place where neighbors know each other and where she fell in love with a hometown hero over two decades ago. Only now, that handsome cowboy is a large ranch owner with a little daughter and soul-deep scars left by his alcoholic ex-wife. Kimberly Byrd made mistakes that will haunt her for ...

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 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…...

“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...

USA TODAY bestselling author Kathryn Springer brings holiday cheer in this festive story about fresh starts and unexpected love blooming on a snow-covered Christmas tree farm. It's three weeks until Christmas, and Lucy Gable is not in the holiday spirit. She’s the assistant to bestselling...