and a book of essays, [Jim] Minick is a careful writer with a gentle outlook. In short chapters, he examines the joys (abundant harvests, berries eaten straight from the bush, the landscape) and challenges (copperheads, crop failure, loneliness) of remaking one's life as a farmer. Between chapters, interludes on berry cultivation, blueberry lore and farming in general both celebrate and calculate the odds against small-scale farming in the United States.from B.T. Shaw: The Oregonian: Spring's fresh harvest of food memoirs
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