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An insight into the life of a farmer turned zookeeper, following the ups and downs through the seasons with Jimmy and the animals at his wildlife park in Suffolk.
Jimmy's Farm turns 20 years old in 2022. From starting out with rare breed pigs and a farm shop, Jimmy and his wife, Michaela, have grown the business over the years and the farm is now licensed to operate as a wildlife park.
Tales from Jimmy's Farm follows a year in the life of the farm. The narrative traces the seasons as Jimmy documents what it means to live on a farm and what each day holds for him, his wife and four young daughters, the land he is farming and the animals in his care.
The farm began life with rare breed pigs, but Jimmy soon expanded this to goats, cows, sheep and Suffolk Punch horses, too, and now the wildlife park plays host to over 80 species and breeds of traditional, rare and exotic animals, from crocodiles, camels and tapirs to skunks, wallabies and raccoons. Visitors can also learn about butterflies and insects in the Butterfly House, and meet reptiles and birds in the Tropical House.
The listener will be transported into the landscape, learn of the practical day-to-day jobs, and fall in love with the animals through stories of where they came from, how they arrived and settled in, and funny anecdotes as Jimmy and his team got to know them. Along with a whole host of other characters, Jimmy will introduce you to:
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- Dolph, Mistletoe and Rowan, the resident reindeers
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- Narrado por: Margaret Roach
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
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Margaret Roach has been harvesting 30 years of backyard parables - deceptively simple, instructive stories from a life spent digging ever deeper - and has distilled them in this memoir along with her best tips for garden making, discouraging all manner of animal and insect opponents, at-home pickling, and more. After ruminating on the bigger picture in her memoir And I Shall Have Some Peace There, Margaret Roach has returned to the garden, insisting as ever that we must garden with both our head and heart, or as she expresses it, with "horticultural how-to and woo-woo."
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Writing Distracting Reading
- De Amazon Customer en 02-11-13
De: Margaret Roach
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The Shepherd's Life
- Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape
- De: James Rebanks
- Narrado por: Bryan Dick
- Duración: 7 h y 34 m
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Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James Rebanks' isn't. He's the first son of a shepherd who was the first son of a shepherd himself; his family have lived and worked in the Lake District of Northern England for generations, further back than recorded history. It's a part of the world known mainly for its romantic descriptions by Wordsworth and the much-loved illustrated children's books of Beatrix Potter. But James' world is quite different. His way of life is ordered by the seasons and the work they demand.
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2 out of 5 stars
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The Author Wears His Life As A Heavy Mantle
- De Sara en 12-06-15
De: James Rebanks
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The Good Good Pig
- The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood
- De: Sy Montgomery
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 5 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 350
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A naturalist who spent months at a time living on her own among wild creatures in remote jungles, Sy Montgomery had always felt more comfortable with animals than with people. So she gladly opened her heart to a sick piglet who had been crowded away from nourishing meals by his stronger siblings. Yet Sy had no inkling that this piglet, later named Christopher Hogwood, would not only survive but flourish.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Uplifting memoir of a pig + autobiography
- De Diana en 04-04-19
De: Sy Montgomery
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The Bucolic Plague
- How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers: An Unconventional Memoir
- De: Josh Kilmer-Purcell
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 217
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A happy series of accidents and a doughnut-laden escape upstate take Josh Kilmer-Purcell and his partner, Brent Ridge, to the doorstep of the magnificent (and fabulously for sale) Beekman Mansion. And so begins their transformation from uptight urbanites into the 200-year-old-mansion-owning Beekman Boys. Suddenly Josh---a full-time New Yorker with a successful advertising career---and Brent find themselves weekend farmers, surrounded by nature's bounty and an eclectic cast.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Selling your dream and name dropping
- De Mark en 09-13-12
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A Hunter's Fireside Book
- Tales of Dogs, Ducks, Birds, & Guns
- De: Gene Hill
- Narrado por: Ray Childs
- Duración: 5 h y 6 m
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The legendary American outdoor writer’s finest collection. For decades, Gene Hill’s articles and books have captured the spirit of the outdoors in a way that inspires and entertains millions of readers. A Hunter’s Fireside Book captures the essence of the life of a sportsman and explores the full spectrum of the hunter’s experience: sunrises in the duck blind, an unforgettable hunter’s moon, the camaraderie of men who know the pleasures of being wet and cold and a little bit lost.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beyond acquiring meat, this is why we go afield
- De Ray C en 02-28-20
De: Gene Hill
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Uncultivated
- Wild Apples, Real Cider, and the Complicated Art of Making a Living
- De: Andy Brennan
- Narrado por: Brett Barry
- Duración: 11 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Long before the advent of conventional farming methods - which have focused on constant growth, human intervention, and genetic homogeneity - the apple had already grown to become the ubiquitous all-American symbol it is today. Known for their hardiness, ability to adapt to new environments, natural diversity, and plentiful bounty, wildly grown apples were once known as “America’s fruit” throughout the trading world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Really good narrator
- De Landon & Sarah en 03-28-24
De: Andy Brennan
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The Moneyless Man
- A Year of Freeconomic Living
- De: Mark Boyle
- Narrado por: David Thorpe
- Duración: 6 h y 42 m
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Imagine a year without spending - or even touching - money. Former businessman Mark Boyle did just that and here is his extraordinary story. Going back to basics and following his own strict rules, Mark learned ingenious ways to eliminate his bills and discovered that good friends are all the riches you need.
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4 out of 5 stars
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In a word, preachy
- De Bob en 05-27-19
De: Mark Boyle
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The Farmer's Son
- Calving Season on a Family Farm
- De: John Connell
- Narrado por: Alan Smyth
- Duración: 7 h y 56 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 40
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Farming has been in John Connell's family for generations, but he never intended to follow in his father's footsteps. Until, one winter, after more than a decade away, he finds himself back on the farm. Connell records the hypnotic rhythm of the farming day - cleaning the barns, caring for the herd, tending to sickly lambs, helping the cows give birth. Alongside the routine events, there are the unforeseen moments when things go wrong: when a calf fails to thrive, when a sheep goes missing, when an argument between father and son erupts and things are said that cannot be unsaid.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful.
- De Kindle Customer en 05-22-19
De: John Connell
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A Most Remarkable Creature
- The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World's Smartest Birds of Prey
- De: Jonathan Meiburg
- Narrado por: Jonathan Meiburg
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
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An enthralling account of a modern voyage of discovery as we meet the clever, social birds of prey called caracaras, which puzzled Darwin, fascinate modern-day falconers, and carry secrets of our planet's deep past in their family history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I don't leave reviews often, but . . .
- De Steven L Peck en 06-24-21
De: Jonathan Meiburg
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Farmageddon
- The True Cost of Cheap Meat
- De: Philip Lymbery, Isabel Oakeshott
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 13 h y 39 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 184
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Farm animals have been disappearing from our fields as the production of food has become a global industry. We no longer know for certain what is entering the food chain and what we are eating - as the UK horsemeat scandal demonstrated. We are reaching a tipping point as the farming revolution threatens our countryside, health, and the quality of our food wherever we live in the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent insight of industrial farming
- De Grazyna en 04-19-14
De: Philip Lymbery, y otros
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The Last Crocodile Hunter
- De: Bob Irwin, Amanda French
- Narrado por: David Tredinnick
- Duración: 12 h y 20 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 59
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Bob Irwin's extraordinary life as a wildlife pioneer, father to wildlife warrior Steve and founder of Australia Zoo, told in his own words. Bob Irwin grew up in the Dandenong Ranges, where his passion for wildlife was born. A near-death experience while working as a plumber made Bob realise he needed to follow his dreams, so he and his wife, Lyn, moved their young family to Queensland, where they opened a wildlife park on the Sunshine Coast. The Irwin children grew up in around the Beerwah Reptile and Wildlife Park....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story!
- De Amazon Customer en 01-06-22
De: Bob Irwin, y otros
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The Yorkshire Shepherdess
- De: Amanda Owen
- Narrado por: Anne Dover
- Duración: 10 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Amanda Owen has been seen by millions on ITV's The Dales, living a life that has almost gone in today's modern world, a life ruled by the seasons and her animals. She is a farmer's wife and shepherdess, living alongside her husband, Clive, and seven children at Ravenseat, a 2,000 acre sheep hill farm at the head of Swaledale in North Yorkshire. It's a challenging life but one she loves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I want to go and have cream tea and meet all the animals and the shepherdess herself
- De luvs aussies en 05-30-19
De: Amanda Owen
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Farm City
- The Education of an Urban Farmer
- De: Novella Carpenter
- Narrado por: Karen White
- Duración: 9 h y 53 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 385
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Novella Carpenter loves cities - the culture, the crowds, the energy. At the same time, she can't shake the fact that she is the daughter of two back-to-the-land hippies who taught her to love nature and eat vegetables. Ambivalent about repeating her parents' disastrous mistakes, yet drawn to the idea of backyard self-sufficiency, Carpenter decided that it might be possible to have it both ways.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Hmmm.
- De THoward en 09-30-09
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Walden
- Life in the Woods
- De: Henry David Thoreau
- Narrado por: Alec Sand
- Duración: 10 h y 5 m
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Thoreau's classic account of the solitary life, describing his attempts to simplify his life and sort out his priorities by living alone in a cabin beside Walden Pond for nearly two years, is one of the most influential books ever written. The bible of the environmental movement, Walden vividly portrays Thoreau's reverence for nature, and his understanding of the idea that nature is made up of crucially interrelated parts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book and narration
- De Kindle Customer en 06-14-11
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Dog Man
- An Uncommon Life on a Faraway Mountain
- De: Martha Sherrill
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
- Duración: 6 h y 18 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 75
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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In the snow country of Japan during World War II, we meet Morie Sawataishi, a fierce individualist who has chosen to break the law by keeping an Akita dog hidden in a shed on his property. By the time of the Japanese surrender in 1945, there are only sixteen Akitas left in the country. The survival of the breed becomes Morie's passion and life. Devoted to the dogs, Morie is forever changed.
In beautiful prose that is a joy to read, Sherrill opens up the world of the Dog Man and his wife, providing a profound look at what it is to be an individualist in a culture that reveres conformity, and what it means to live.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Dog of a Book
- De mjchgo en 08-27-10
De: Martha Sherrill
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Sheepish
- Two Women, Fifty Sheep, and Enough Wool to Save the Planet
- De: Catherine Friend
- Narrado por: Erin Bennett
- Duración: 7 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 134
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What do you do when you love your farm...but it doesn’t love you? After 15 years of farming, Catherine Friend is tired. After all, while shepherding is one of the oldest professions, it’s not getting any easier. The number of sheep in America has fallen by 90 percent in the last 90 years. But just as Catherine thinks it’s time to hang up her shepherd’s crook, she discovers that sheep might be too valuable to give up. What ensues is a funny, thoughtful romp through the history of our woolly friends, why small farms are important, and how each one of us - and the planet - would benefit from being very sheepish, indeed.
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3 out of 5 stars
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We're all a little sheepish
- De Pam en 12-23-14
De: Catherine Friend
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Surviving Ireland
- De: Colm Tobin
- Narrado por: Colm Tobin
- Duración: 4 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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It's exhausting being Irish. The constant self-flagellation is enough to put anybody off their breakfast. Why are we so hard on ourselves? Is it the postcolonial overhang following centuries of oppression at the hands of a litany of foreign invaders? Or is it collective guilt for sending Westlife out into the wider world? In Surviving Ireland, acclaimed comedy writer Colm Tobin takes the listener by the hand for a satirical romp through modern Irish life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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very fun
- De Rick en 06-12-19
De: Colm Tobin
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Coming up for Air
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Richard Brown
- Duración: 8 h y 24 m
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George Bowling, an insurance salesman, hits middle age and feels impelled to “come up for air” from his life of quiet desperation. With seventeen pounds he has won at a race, he steals a vacation from his wife and family and pays a visit to Lower Binfield, the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before. But the pool is gone, Lower Binfield has changed beyond recognition, and the principal event of Bowling’s holiday is an accidental bombing by the RAF.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Orwell Flirts and Fishes w/ Nostalgia & Modernity.
- De Darwin8u en 07-10-12
De: George Orwell