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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver For a person embarking on her own journey into farming, I was both inspired and shocked it took me so long to happen upon this book. There is so much about it to love. In the Kingsolver family’s pact to eat…
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Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

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Life After Life by Kate Atkinson This novel's exploration of Ursula Todd's multiple lives might, at first, leave the reader wondering but for me it was like diving into a wonderful puzzle in which I was invited to figure out the patterns and rhythms for myself, to try to…
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The Planting

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The essay "The Planting" originally appeared on Jeannie's Substack. Subscribe here for monthly updates! On a day when the news is filled with stories of AI destroying humanity, planting lettuce is a good antidote. Farming, after all, is a grand gesture of hope. On my hands and…
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The Water

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The essay "The Water" originally appeared on Jeannie's Substack. Subscribe here for monthly updates! When we first stepped foot on Flynn Creek Farm, there was a relatively modern home on the property, constructed in 2014, in addition to a not so new barn and an equipment shed. …
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The Listening

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The essay "The Listening" was previously published on Jeannie's Substack. Subscribe here for monthly updates! One of the first things that hit me after Arriving on the farm was the quiet. I’ve written about seeking silence in blog posts before, but landing here, I think I've…
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Arriving

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The essay "Arriving" was originally published on Medium.com We allowed four days to drive from Park City to Verona, WI. It was actually three days of driving with a twenty-four hour stop in Denver to spend time with our daughter. The drive was necessary as we would need a car…
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Daughter of a Promise

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The Nine

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Eden: A Novel

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