Turn Here Sweet Corn: Organic Farming Works

by Atina Diffley

Book Overview

When the hail starts to fall, Atina Diffley doesn't compare it to golf balls. She's a farmer. It's "as big as a B-size potato." As her bombarded land turns white, she and her husband Martin huddle under a blanket and reminisce: the one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds; the eleven-inch rainfall ("that broccoli turned out gorgeous"); the hail disaster of 1977. The romance of farming washed away a long time ago, but the love? Never. In telling her story...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816677727
• ISBN13: 9780816677726
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.7"