Hit by a Farm

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Hit by a Farm: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Barn | Catherine Friend

#CurrentlyListening because I‘m on an #ArmchairFarming kick 🤓

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Wife

Hit by a Farm: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Barn | Catherine Friend

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A warts-and-all description of life on a farm. If I ever entertained the notion of having a farm, this is the book that would talk me out of it. Way too much work and heart-break 💔 for me. I enjoy reading about people that have very different experiences and lives. 3/5🐑s

BarbaraTheBibliophage My cousin started a sheep farm when she “retired.” It is so hard! The lambs are adorable, but they don‘t all survive. Which is horrible. 5y

Wife @BarbaraTheBibliophage It all sounds so charming, until the work never ends and the animals die. Not for me. 😢 5y

BarbaraTheBibliophage @Wife Yeah, I def couldn‘t do it. Might pick this book up though, just to know more. 5y

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WanderingBookaneer

Hit by a Farm: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Barn | Catherine Friend

Article includes mostly picture books, but tagged book has my favorite real-life llamas.

https://bookriot.com/?p=171443

MidnightBookGirl 2018 was the year of llamas (and alpacas) for the Hubs and I, so I need to check these out! 5y

LauraBeth Is Your Mama A Llama is missing from this list! 5y

Clare-Dragonfly I love Llama Llama Red Pajama—I didn‘t know there was a series! 5y

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WanderingBookaneer

Hit by a Farm: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Barn | Catherine Friend

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Catherine Friend was a certified city dweller, but her girlfriend wanted to start a farm in Minnesota. Having no previous experience and knowing only what they learned from books, the two embark on a journey to start a sheep farm. This book chronicles their misadventures. Through trial and error, by adding chickens, and llamas, and grapes they learn that farming is hard, rewarding work. #ReadJanuary #autobiography

silentrequiem OMG I love the title! 😁 7y

Soubhiville Sounds great! Have you read

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

Soubhiville Similar vein, I bet you'd like it! 7y

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WanderingBookaneer @Soubhiville : I have read it and loved it as well. 7y

WanderingBookaneer Ps. I'm loving your hair, @Soubhiville ! 7y

Soubhiville Haha, thanks! It's about time to visit my hair magician again for a change up! 7y

Wife Stacked! 6y

WanderingBookaneer @Wife : You‘ll love it! 6y

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intothehallofbooks

Hit by a Farm: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Barn | Catherine Friend

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🙋🏻 I devoured this. SO entertaining!

This is a great memoir by a gal that bought a farm with her partner in order to realize her partner's dream. Some have said it is whiny but I think not; I think there is honesty here. Vulnerability. Cath shows the pros + cons of farming as well as the lovely parts of nature along with some of the inevitable sadness.

I recommend this for anyone that is interested in farm/rural life. Such fun to read ☀️

Lindy I enjoyed this too, as well as her subsequent nonfiction that was more about wool fiber and sheep:

Sheepish: Two Women, Fifty Sheep, and Enough Wool to Save the Planet

Zelma This is another memoir you might enjoy, about a city woman marrying a farmer. She can sound kind of whiny and unhappy at times, but she is really honest about how hard farming life is and her struggle to adjust, and the book shows her slow adjustment and eventual happiness with it.

The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love

intothehallofbooks @Zelma Oh yay-Out of all of the farm-memoir-type books, I think I'd like to read The Dirty Life next! Thank you so much for the recommendation, Zelma ??? Looks like it might be an "Asheley" book! 8y

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intothehallofbooks @Lindy I didn't realize she had written another book, Lindy! I enjoyed this one so much that I'm definitely adding Sheepish to my TBR. Thank you so much for the recommendation 😍 I really never knew that I'd be so interested in sheep farming, but I was so charmed by the animals + by Catherine's interactions with them 😊 8y

Zelma @intothehallofbooks you're welcome! I love these types of memoirs too. So I appreciate this review! 👍 if you're into audio books at all, I listened to The Dirty Life and liked that format. But I'm sure it's good in print too. 8y

Lindy Another warm & funny memoir about farm life is by an intersex person, Brian Brett:

Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life

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intothehallofbooks

Hit by a Farm: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Barn | Catherine Friend

I bought this on impulse this evening + cannot even begin to tell you all how much I am l-o-v-i-n-g it right now 💕

Cinfhen I can see how it was an impulse buy 😉title and cover is awesome 😂 8y

LauraJ 🐥 Bellybuttons? Really!? 8y

intothehallofbooks @LauraJ That's what I thought too! Who knew! 🤓 8y

intothehallofbooks @Cinfhen I really didn't stop reading this book at all except to sleep - I actually fell asleep last night reading it. It was just really what I wanted at this point in time, I guess. I loved it! I agree about the cover. 😊 8y

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