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		<title>Grow the Good Life by Michele Owens</title>
		<link>http://www.farmbrarian.com/2012/01/16/grow-the-good-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times called Michele Owens&#8217; Grow The Good Life (2011) &#8220;breezy, cantankerous and funny.&#8221; That description alone should peak anyone&#8217;s interest, but here&#8217;s a bit more about the book. Owens has been gardening for more than two decades and is a contributor to the popular blog Garden Rant. Her book is a memoir [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barnheart by Jenna Woginrich</title>
		<link>http://www.farmbrarian.com/2011/12/05/barnheart-by-jenna-woginrich/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Farmbrarian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of you may already know Jenna Woginrich. She is the author of Made from Scratch, which we&#8217;ve reviewed, and Chick Days, a guide to raising chickens. She also has an immense following on her blog Cold Antler Farm, where she writes about her daily farming experiences. Now Jenna has a new book out. Barnheart [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wisdom of the Radish by Lynda Hopkins</title>
		<link>http://www.farmbrarian.com/2011/06/16/the-wisdom-of-the-radish-book-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is hard to deny that a new generation is taking an interest in farming. Considering the graying of farmers today, we should be thankful for these young folks. Each of them has a story, and The Wisdom of the Radish and Other Lessons Learned on a Small Farm is that of Lynda Hopkins. At [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Growing a Farmer by Kurt Timmermeister</title>
		<link>http://www.farmbrarian.com/2011/02/28/growing-a-farmer-book-review/</link>
		<comments>http://www.farmbrarian.com/2011/02/28/growing-a-farmer-book-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Farmbrarian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, farming memoirs abound. We&#8217;ve featured many books on how a farmer was &#8220;grown,&#8221; such as The Dirty Life, Made From Scratch, Farm City and Goat Song. Growing a Farmer: How I Learned to Live Off the Land (2011) isn&#8217;t necessarily the most unique tale. But it is a great account of one modern farmer&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twelve by Twelve by William Powers</title>
		<link>http://www.farmbrarian.com/2011/02/09/twelve-by-twelve-book-review/</link>
		<comments>http://www.farmbrarian.com/2011/02/09/twelve-by-twelve-book-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 06:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Farmbrarian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dubbed a &#8220;modern-day Walden,&#8221; Twelve by Twelve (2010) recounts William Powers&#8217; time spent living in a twelve-foot by twelve-foot home with no electricity or running water in rural North Carolina. Powers does include stories of his daily activities, but Twelve by Twelve is predominately filled with reflections on philosophy, environmental degradation and globalization. After years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Made from Scratch by Jenna Woginrich</title>
		<link>http://www.farmbrarian.com/2011/01/17/made-from-scratch-book-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 03:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Farmbrarian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Point is, it feels good to get dirty, work hard, and slow down.&#8221; And so begins Jenna Woginrich&#8217;s guide to living a simple life filled with homemade and homegrown pleasures. She shares stories and advice on how to become more self-sufficient, covering a range of topics like making your own clothes, providing your own entertainment, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dirty Life by Kristin Kimball</title>
		<link>http://www.farmbrarian.com/2010/12/30/book-review-the-dirty-life/</link>
		<comments>http://www.farmbrarian.com/2010/12/30/book-review-the-dirty-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kristin Kimball, a New York based journalist, begins a whirlwind romance with a fervid farmer, and she quickly discovers that she’s also deeply in love with the agrarian lifestyle. The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food and Love is yet another story of a city girl turned farmer. Most of the memoir is set on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honeybee by C. Marina Marchese</title>
		<link>http://www.farmbrarian.com/2010/11/14/honeybee-book-review/</link>
		<comments>http://www.farmbrarian.com/2010/11/14/honeybee-book-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 15:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a result of the surge in urban homesteading efforts, more and more people are raising chickens and keeping bees right in their backyards. For anyone interested in learning about the intricacies of beekeeping, this book by C. Marina Marchese is worth reading. Honeybee: Lessons from an Accidental Beekeeper (2009) is both a memoir and an instructional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Better Off by Eric Brende</title>
		<link>http://www.farmbrarian.com/2010/10/06/better-off-book-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 01:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New technologies are being developed daily and marketed as tools that will make our lives easier—but do they? Eric Brende begins an 18-month exploration into life without modern technologies in hopes of answering that question. His experiences living off the grid are recorded in his 2005 book Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology. Although [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goat Song by Brad Kessler</title>
		<link>http://www.farmbrarian.com/2010/08/12/book-review-goat-song/</link>
		<comments>http://www.farmbrarian.com/2010/08/12/book-review-goat-song/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The notion of pastoral life is, for many, nonexistent. Modern conveniences have taught children that milk comes from a carton and bread comes in a bag. Farmland is quickly being gobbled up and regurgitated as suburban sprawl. Few take notice. But others feel a pull to return to a simpler lifestyle—one that has existed for [...]]]></description>
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