One-woman farm: my life shared with sheep, pigs, chickens, goats and a fine fiddle

213 Pages·2013·81.846 MB·English

by  Dibben, Emma;Woginrich, Jenna

also by jenna woginrich
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TAbLE oF CoNTENTs
7 days of grace
12 Cold Antler Farm
17 autumn: Need Fires
51 winter: Light
99 spring: I Do Too Much
151 summer: Committing
183 autumn: Harvest Home
197 Holy October
206 Epilogue
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thank you
I’d like to thank all the family, farmers, readers, friends, and teachers
I have had along the way. Especially my parents, Pat and Jack
Woginrich, who are tolerating a farmer as a daughter — however
exasperating and confusing it may be. Thank you, Brett McLeod,
the best friend a farm gal could ever have. I must also express my
intense gratitude to my Washington County neighbors Patty and
Mark Wesner, the Daughton family, Tom Brazie, Jon Katz and
Maria Wulf, and all the tribespeople down at Common Sense Farm.
Thank you to Paul Fersen, Cider Dave, Ajay Rubin, Riding Right
Farm, and all the others who have taught me on my journey. I really
want to thank everyone at Storey Publishing, especially my editor
Deb Burns, who helped form this book in its infancy, and designer
Carolyn Eckert, who expressed it so well. Thank you to all my old
friends at Orvis who watched me evolve from new office employee to
full-time farmer. Thank you to Connie Brooks and Battenkill Books,
as well as New York state’s own Greenhorns, for cultivating a com-
munity where lingering woodsmoke can be the only truth that you have
neighbors outside your own farm’s boundaries.
And thank you to my pack: Jazz, Annie, and Gibson, who have never
left my side.
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