"Mary Frances "Frankie" Lombard is fiercely in love with her family's sprawling apple orchard and the tangled web of family members who inhabit it. Content to spend her days planning capers with her brother William, competing with her brainy cousin Amanda, and expertly tending the orchard with her father, Frankie desires nothing more than for the rhythm of life to continue undisturbed. But she cannot help being haunted by the historical fact that...

Photographs and text chronicle a year at a small organic farm in Vermont, describing the struggles Jennifer Megyesi and Kyle Jones faced while trying to start Fat Rooster Farm.

Much local New England detail in exploration of the history and future of American family farming as an idea and as an ongoing way of life.

Portrays life on a small family farm in Vermont by describing a single day in the hard-working but prideful existence of its owners.

Offers advice for families dealing with resource issues, food policy, and social fabric.

"One farm lies 8 feet below sea level, in the peat meadows of the Netherlands. The other farm is at 750 feet in the hills of Vermont in the USA. But they have so much in common: the same family has been farming each one for three generations; they witnessed prosperity, and the increase in scale of agriculture; each made the leap to organic farming." (from cover)