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Logan Pryce makes a mess
\"When his father is hired for a temporary job at the general store, farm boy Logan can't wait to lend a hand. But his eagerness may cause his dad to lose this job. Can Logan's mistake be fixed in time?\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Last of the Husbandmen
\"Nan turned to see Ben's faceturn as hard and white as asauerkraut crock. When he didnot respond, Nan figured thathe was just going to back offas he usually did, the shy andretiring husbandman. She didnot know her history. She didnot know that shy and retiringhusbandmen have been knownto revolt against oppressionwith pitchforks drawn.\" - The Last of the HusbandmenIn The Last of the Husbandmen, Gene Logsdon looks to his own roots in Ohio farming life to depict the personal triumphs and tragedies,clashes and compromises, and abiding human character of American farmingfamilies and communities. From the Great Depression, when farmers tilledthe fields with plow horses, to the corporate farms and government subsidyprograms of the present, this novel presents the complex transformation of alivelihood and of a way of life. Two friends, one rich by local standards, and the other of more modest means,grow to manhood in a lifelong contest of will and character. In response tomany of the same circumstances-war, love, moonshining, the Klan, weather,the economy-their different approaches and solutions to dealing with theirsituations put them at odds with each other, but we are left with a deeper understanding of the world that they have inherited and have chosen. Part morality play and part personal recollection, The Last of the Husbandmen is both a lighthearted look at the past and a profound statement about the present state of farming life. It is also a novel that captures the spirit of those who have chosen to work the land they love.
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The midnight fox
Tom dislikes spending the summer on his aunt's farm until he discovers a black fox in the forest and tracks her to her den.
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The butcher shop
The Butcher Shop first appeared in 1926.Despite big overseas sales it was banned in New Zealand and later Australia for being disgusting, indecent and communistic - in other words for promoting revolutionary ideas about women and for a bold portrayal of the brutality of farm life.
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Six crows : a fable
An owl helps a farmer and some crows reach a compromise over the rights to the wheat crop.
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The Gorse Blooms Pale
Dan Davin, one of New Zealand's acknowledged masters of the short story, was born in Invercargill in 1913.The Gorse Blooms Pale gathers together twenty-six stories and a selection of poems reflecting his experiences while growing up in an Irish-New Zealand family in Southland.
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Duck to the rescue
When something goes wrong on the farm, Ernie the duck is determined to help out, but no matter how hard he tries, nothing goes quite as he plans.
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The gorse blooms pale : Dan Davin's Southland stories
Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
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Fanny's dream
Fanny Agnes is a sturdy farm girl who dreams of marrying a prince, but when her fairy godmother doesn't show up, she decides on a local farmer instead.
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Recognising the edible urban commons
Across urbanising Asia, edible commons surprise, contradict or challenge social norms of being in public. Their presence provokes new adjudications of approaching, governing and managing shared and living property, prompting thought on how public and private realms of life may converge into informal modes of co-governance for green place-making and flourishing. Starting with an anecdote of stealing in a short-lived urban farm in Singapore, I conceptualise edible urban commons as ‘active moments’. Specifically, they are active moments where a generative form of friction and fiction emerges, and as such, are allegorical packages that transmit latent capacities. I suggest that closer attention to forms of regulatory slippage in these spaces generates insight about latent capacities for transformation. Finally, I propose a preliminary set of latent capacities for transformative governance towards an ecological identity that supports edible commoning in cities.
在正在城市化的亚洲，可食用公共空间（edible commons）出人意料、与公共社会规范相冲突、并对其形成了挑战。它们的存在引发了对待、管理和治理共享生物资产的新观点，促使人们思考公共和私人生活领域如何融入非正式的共同治理模式，以促进绿色地方营造和繁荣。从一个短命的新加坡城市农场发生的偷窃事件开始，我将可食用城市公共空间概念化为“活跃时刻”。具体来说，它们处于活跃时刻，其中出现了摩擦和虚构的生成形式，因此，是传递潜在能力的寓言包。我建议更密切关注这些空间中的监管滑点形式，这可以让我们了解潜在的转型能力。最后，我提出了一套初步的潜在转型治理能力，以实现支持城市可食用公共空间的生态认同。
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