How to Be a Perfect Farm Wife

Author: Lorna Sixsmith
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781518667695
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250

Book Description
How can you get your farmer away for a holiday? How can you feed eight contractors with ten minutes' notice? How can you get along with your mother-in-law (especially if she is an Irish Mammy)? What do you do with a wellie with a hole in it? These questions - big and small - and many others are answered by farmer's wife and writer Lorna Sixsmith. She knows what it is like to have the village appraise your signature dish, how to stay calm during the dreaded "testing," how to interpret "farm speak," and what to do to keep the hens happy. More importantly she knows how to cheat to give the impression you are a PERFECT farm wife. This book is packed with history, advice, recipes, hints and tips (and quizzes along the way to see how you measure up). The best advice is always to keep a sense of humour, and Lorna's shines through in her writing. This is a perfect read for all farm wives and girlfriends (and husbands and boyfriends), and country lovers everywhere. #PerfectFarmWife

The Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt

Author: Laurie Aaron Hird
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0896898288
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
Be Inspired by the Stories The 1922, The Farmer's Wife magazine posed this question to their readers: "If you had a daughter of marriageable age, would you, in light of your own experience, have her marry a farmer?" The magazine at the time had 750,000 subscribers, and received over 7,000 letters. The best answers to this question are included in this book, along with the traditional quilt blocks they inspired. Laurie Aaron Hird provides everything you need to be inspired and create your own sampler quilt: • 111 six-inch quilt blocks, with assembly diagrams for piecing the blocks and template cutting directions • Complete instruction for making a sampler quilt in any traditional size: lap, twin, queen or king • Download access to easy-to-print, full-sized templates for all 111 blocks, and printable quilt construction diagrams • 42 letters from the 1922 Farmer's Wife contest to give you a priceless glimpse into our country's past

Best Recipes from the Farmer's Wife Cookbook

Author: Beverly Hudson
Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
ISBN: 0760369399
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 243

Book Description
Best Recipes from the Farmer’s Wife Cookbook—a revised, modernized, four-color edition of The Famer’s Wife Cookbook—brings together the most popular, easy-to-follow recipes and menus that appeared on the pages of The Farmer’s Wife magazine around the start of the twentieth century.

Faith, Farming, and Family

Author: Caitlin Henderson
Publisher: WaterBrook
ISBN: 0525654208
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
A young farmer’s wife draws on her life with kids, cows, and a front-porch view to help us see God’s goodness and beauty wherever we are, reminding us that the simple life is not a place to be but a way to be. “Grab a cup of coffee and join Caitlin on her porch to hear the lessons God has taught her through the good and hard of everyday life.”—Vivian Mabuni, speaker and author of Open Hands, Willing Heart: Discover the Joy of Saying Yes to God When Caitlin, a small-town girl, fell in love with a farm boy named Jake Henderson, she had little idea what farm life—or marriage and motherhood—would bring. But raising a family on a farm is teaching her more about God’s goodness and grace than she could have imagined. Faith, Farming, and Family is a rich, story-filled walk through farmhouse hallways, harvest-ready fields, and God’s bountiful dreams for our lives. As Caitlin reflects on everything from wayward tractors to watching a marriage grow from surviving to flourishing, she reminds us to see the redemption in our own stories. Join Caitlin in exploring biblical truth through the eyes of a farmer’s wife, whether you are wrangling kids onto a school bus, sowing creative seeds in a business meeting, or walking the pastures of your own family farm. Faith, Farming, and Family invites us to recognize God’s beauty right in front of us so that we might find the courage to take the next step—or the first step—into His incredible calling.

An Ideal Farm Husband

Author: Lorna Sixsmith
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781537636290
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
* Are farmers considered to be romantic?* How can you find the right woman to be your perfect farm wife? * What will it take for your mother and your wife to get on?* Is it ever a good idea to live with your parents?* How can you get away for a break?Farmer/farmer's wife and author Lorna Sixsmith looks at what it takes to become an Ideal Farm Husband. You'll find out how little effort it takes to be romantic, how to propose with pizzazz, the best ways to survive stresses like the Pre Silage Tension and the Pre Scanning Shakes, and how to overcome your disappointment at finding your girlfriend is not, after all, telepathic. You'll discover why water, social media, sales representatives, your dog and sharing housework are so important for your wellbeing.With "his and her" quizzes to test your progress (and yes, there are wrong answers), this is a book you can read together to ensure you become a modern, IDEAL farm husband. This is a perfect read for all farm husbands and boyfriends (and wives and girlfriends), and country lovers everywhere.

The Farmer's Wife

Author: Lori Handeland
Publisher: Lori Handeland
ISBN: 0996836578
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265

Book Description
The secret they’ve kept can either bring them together or tear them apart . . . Youngest sibling and only sister, Kim Luchetti comes home to Illinois following her father’s heart attack. Eight years ago she vowed never to return, believing only distance would allow her to forget the tragedy that broke her heart. But returning means she must face Brian Riley, her first love and the only one who knows her secret. Despite Brian’s hurt and anger over Kim’s abandoning him when he needed her the most, Brian has never stopped loving her. When she appears at his farm, surprise causes him to tumble off the barn roof and break both his wrists. Kim’s guilt makes her agree to move in and help until he’s healed. But Kim never wanted to be a farmer’s wife and her lack of skills produces daily hilarious disasters. Laughing together, living together forces Kim and Brian to face the past and their unresolved feelings. Will talking about what happened help them heal? Or will the memories of their heartbreak keep them from their second chance? men women relationship humor, family life fiction, small town rural fiction, secret baby romance books, siblings fiction, funny contemporary romance, romance with animals, romance with pets

The New Farm

Author: Brent Preston
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683353021
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 287

Book Description
This “must-read” memoir of human-scale agriculture offers an insider’s view of today’s food system by a leading voice in sustainable farming (Daniel Boulud). After years of working at the ends of the earth in human rights and development, Brent Preston and his wife were die-hard city dwellers. But when their second child arrived, the shine came off urban living. In 2003 they bought a hundred acres and a rundown farmhouse, determined to build a farm that would sustain their family, nourish their community, heal their environment—and turn a profit. The New Farm is Preston’s memoir of a decade of toil and perseverance. Farming is a complex and precarious business, and they made plenty of mistakes along the way. But as they learned how to grow food, and to succeed at the business of farming, they also found that a small, sustainable, organic farm could be an engine for change, a path to a more just and sustainable food system. Today, The New Farm supplies top restaurants, supports community food banks, hosts events with leading chefs, and grows extraordinary produce. Told with humor and heart, The New Farm is a joy, a passionate book by an important new voice.

How to Create the Perfect Wife

Author: Wendy Moore
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465065732
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362

Book Description
A captivating tale of one man's mission to groom his ideal mate. Thomas Day, an 18th-century British writer and radical, knew exactly the sort of woman he wanted to marry. Pure and virginal, yet tough and hardy, and completely subervient to his whims. But after being rejected by a number of spirited young women, Day concluded that the perfect partner he envisioned simply did not exist in frivolous, fashion-obsessed Georgian society. Rather than conceding defeat and giving up on his search for the woman of his dreams, however, Day set out to create her. So begins the extraordinary true story at the heart of How to Create the Perfect Wife. A few days after he turned twenty-one and inherited a large fortune, Day adopted two young orphans from the Founding Hospital and, guided by the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the principles of the Enlightenment, attempted to teach them to be model wives. Day's peculiar experiment inevitably backfired -- though not before he had taken his theories about marriage, education, and femininity to shocking extremes. Stranger than fiction, blending tragedy and farce, How to Create the Perfect Wife is an engrossing tale of the radicalism -- and deep contradictions -- at the heart of the enlightenment.

Would You Marry a Farmer?

Author: Lorna Sixsmith
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781508905431
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206

Book Description
Is a farmer a good catch? Would you like to marry a farmer? Wondering where to find a nice farmer? Does the prospect of marrying a farmer scare the life out of you? This tongue-in-cheek funny yet realistic look at what life is like married to a farmer will make you groan in empathy as well as laugh out loud. "Would You Marry A Farmer?" is a lucid discussion of farm life in the 21st century, and a perfect book for both visitors to Ireland who wish to better understand Irish life, urban dwellers seeking to learn more about their farmer forefathers, and anyone curious about the social history of agricultural life in Ireland.

How to Be a Farmer

Author:
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691224730
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 266

Book Description
A delightful anthology of classical Greek and Roman writings celebrating country living—ranging from a philosophy of compost to hymns to the gods of agriculture Whether you farm or garden, live in the country or long to move there, or simply enjoy an occasional rural retreat, you will be delighted by this cornucopia of writings about living and working on the land, harvested from the fertile fields of ancient Greek and Roman literature. An inspiring antidote to the digital age, How to Be a Farmer evokes the beauty and bounty of nature with a rich mixture of philosophy, practical advice, history, and humor. Together, these timeless reflections on what the Greeks called boukolika and the Romans res rusticae provide an entertaining and enlightening guide to a more meaningful and sustainable way of life. In fresh translations by classicist and farmer M. D. Usher, with the original texts on facing pages, Hesiod praises the dignity of labor; Plato describes the rustic simplicity of his ideal republic; Varro dedicates a farming manual to his wife, Fundania (“Mrs. Farmer”); and Vergil idealizes farmers as residents of the Golden Age. In other selections, Horace extols the joys of simple living at his cherished country farm; Pliny the Elder explains why all culture stems from agriculture; Columella praises donkeys and tells how to choose a ram or a dog; Musonius Rufus argues that farming is the best livelihood for a philosopher; and there is much more. Proof that farming is ultimately a state of mind we should all cultivate, How to Be a Farmer will charm anyone who loves nature or its fruits.