Harvest - A Year in the Life of an Organic Farm

This book chronicles the life of one family farming organically on Fat Rooster Farm in Royalton, Vermont. What I loved about it was it's stark realism. It was helpful to me on a very personal level, realizing that the struggles facing farmers are universal. They too have to deal with animals in the neighbors pastures, the exhausting work involved in getting up in the night for lambing, weeding for hours on end and broken machinery. Not to mention the emotional drain of losing favorite animals. The little things that happen every day seem so trivial and easy to handle but when the same things happen over and over it can be so discouraging. The book does go into details about butchering animals so it is not for the feint of heart!