This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm

by Ted Genoways

Book Overview

The family farm lies at the heart of our national identity, and yet its future is in peril. Rick Hammond grew up on a farm, and for forty years he has raised cattle and crops on his wife's fifth-generation homestead in Nebraska, in hopes of passing it on to their four children. But as the handoff nears, their family farm--and their entire way of life--are under siege on many fronts, from shifting trade policies, to encroaching pipelines, to climate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393356450
• ISBN13: 9780393356458
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.2"