Century Farm: One Hundred Years on a Family Farm by Cris Peterson
	List Price:   $17.95 Unit Price:   $14.36 You Save:   $3.59 (20%) ISBN-10:   1563977109 ISBN-13:   9781563977107 Publisher:   Boyds Mills Press Category:   Agriculture Pub. Date:   September 2003 Pages:   32 Format:   Trade Cloth Grades:   0 to 2
Subjects
FARM LIFE_JUVENILE LITERATURE WISCONSIN_JUVENILE LITERATURE
Description/Notes
The Peterson family farm is one hundred years old & about to enter a new century. Here, in wonderful family anecdotes, the author shares the story of the farm as it grew from a barn & house & granary in the 1890s to a thriving dairy farm in the 1990s. There has been plenty of hard work-sawing down the trees to erect the first buildings, the endless cycle of planting & harvesting, chopping firewood to keep the house warm-but there has also been golf practice on the pasture land, Sunday drives in the family car, & cross-country skiing in the meadows. Over the past hundred years many things on the farm have changed, but many things have stayed the same. There is still one family working together to make the farm a viable business. There is still one kitchen where cookies are baked & meals are cooked to feed family & friends & those who help on the farm. Filled with photos selected from a century's worth of family albums as well as dramatic shots from recent years, the book provides a glimpse into the past & the future of one American family farm. Traces the changes in farm life over a century & includes material on the machinery used, the tasks performed, & the different farm animals. A century is a long time -- one hundred years. That's how old the Peterson farm is. What was once boggy, stump-strewn land is now a thriving dairy farm, worked on and cultivated by five generations of the Peterson family in Wisconsin.Over the century some things have changed, but many have stayed the same. There are lots more cows now and a big, new barn; there is far more powerful equipment to help with the year-round work. But crops are still planted in the spring and harvested in the fall. Children still ride their bikes on the barn walk, and kittens still play in the hayloft. The family lives in the original farmhouse and shares meals in the same kitchen. Though the work may seem never-ending, there's still boating and fishing on a nearby lake and golfing in the back pasture.Writing in the voice of her husband, Gary, author Cris Peterson offers glimpses of life on the farm they have worked together for more than twenty-five years. Her eloquent text is accompanied by wonderful pictures from old family albums as well as dramatic full-color photographs from recent years. Photographer Alvis Upitis captures the simple beauty of a corn stalk bending in the sun and the power of a forage chopper pulled behind a tractor. This talented author-photographer team has created a unique portrait of life over the past hundred years on an American family farm -- as it prepares to begin a new century.