Dirt Under My Nails: An American Farmer and Her Changing Land

By Marilee Foster

Book Overview

A woman farmer observes with a poetic and appreciative eye the transformation of the plant and animal life on her land through the changing seasons, and now through the encroachment of residential development.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1882593545
• ISBN13: 9781882593545
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Bridgeworks Publishers
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

A Lovely Book, a Quiet Read

From page one, I was taken by this book. It is written in a quiet voice, and tells a tale of modern day farming. It is poetry in the plow fields. The author paints a vivid image with words, of the harshness of farming, and the glory, the harvest, and yet does it with pastels. Even bright green is a whisper of color in the breeze. In my opionion this book is more about nature, than farming. It's about times gone by, and our future. A jewel of a read!

Great "Down to Earth" book

A book full of the common sense reality of the struggle to preserve your land and (what do farmers do again) grow food to feed people. Having grown a lot of food in my earlier years, the author communicates the closeness a farmer feels to the cycles of nature. Farmers are the original environmentalists. A great non-judgemental review of the effect of the spread of non-farmers into her world. People move from the city to the country and then citify the country.

A fifth generation farming woman's memoir

Dirt Under My Nails: An American Farmer And Her Changing Land is the engaging memoir of Marilee Foster, a fifth generation farming woman who devoted herself to a world of fertile soil, looking after turkeys, reveling in the change of seasons and much more. A solid, inspirational book about enjoying a hands-on closeness to nature and the joy of farming as a way of life, Dirt Under My Nails is a very pleasant read and highly recommended for anyone who has ever worked the land or contemplated doing so.