Growing into a Farm: Before the Walden Effect
My newest ebook, Growing into a Farm: Before the Walden Effect, is now live on
Amazon. Thanks to everyone who gave me title and cover
suggestions! If you missed it, you can read the introduction here, and the blurb is below:
Anna Hess spent her early childhood chasing ornery cows back into the barn, eating all the strawberries before they got ripe so she didn't have to share them, and climbing sap-riddled pine trees. The reality of farm life seemed to be summed up in one word --- bliss. So when her back-to-the-lander parents threw in the towel and moved the family to a nearby town, Anna resolved to save her pennies and find a farm of her own, one that she would never have to leave.
A couple of decades later, Anna had bought the property, but soon realized she couldn't make her dreams come true alone. When a friend set her up with a potential mate, Anna went along grudgingly. "To be honest, at the time I was still pretty sure that a farm and a man were incompatible," Anna wrote, "and given the choice I leaned toward the farm." Little did she know that the best partnership was a threesome --- a man, a woman, and a farm.
Full of photos, this book serves as a preface to the popular homesteading blog, Walden Effect.
The rest of this week's lunchtime series is going to regale you
with the first section of Growing into a Farm, but if you want to see
the parts with Mark in it, you'll have to splurge $1.99 on a copy
of the complete book (which can
be read on nearly any device). I'll also be setting the book free on
Friday so my loyal readers can pick up a copy without paying, and
those of you who prefer a pdf copy can email me Friday to get an
emailed copy instead. Thanks for reading (and double thanks
if you find the time to leave a review on Amazon). I hope
you enjoy this light read to round out a busy gardening season!
| This post is part of our Growing into a Farm lunchtime series.
Read all of the entries: |
Or explore more posts by date or by subject.
About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
Want to be notified when new comments are posted on this page? Click on the RSS button after you add a comment to subscribe to the comment feed, or simply check the box beside "email replies to me" while writing your comment.
Stephen --- Thanks so much! I appreciate both the purchase and review very much!!
Daddy --- They're pretty good once they turn white.
I'll bet you wondered why we had so few ripe strawberries, huh?