Books in Rural
Explore our curated list of farming and tractor history books.
Bringing Allis Home Growing Up with an Allis-Chalmers WC in the Family
The first part of Bringing Allis Home provides nearly 30 episodes involving work on a typical mid-American farm in the 1940s and 50s with a much-loved family friend, an Allis-Chalmers WC. The second part contains various episodes in recent times that involve the young boy who is telling the stories in the first part. The young boy is now retired and attempts to take a similar tractor back to his home farm for one more tractor ride across the fields there. The return trip turned out not to be as easily done as he had thought.
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Pitchfork Pulpit Wisdom and Practice in a Self-Reliant Life
<b>For six years Joel Salatin's Pitchfork Pulpit column in <i>The Mother Earth News</i> magazine inspired and challenged readers. These columns, in the order they ran, preserve that timeless writing legacy for today's homesteading, small farming, and self-reliance community.</b><br><br>As America's iconic and fearless bootstrap farmsteader, Joel Salatin captures principles of practical success and philosophical wisdom in this series of essays originally published in <i>Mother Earth News</i> magazine. From stewarding a woodlot to managing aromatically-appealing chickens, his dirt-under-the-fingernails experience coaches readers to self-reliant success. Untangling from industrial corporate systems dependency is a lifelong process, and one that jumpstarts with this trove of advice.
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This Old Tractor A Treasury of Vintage Tractors and Family Farm Memories
Lavishly illustrated with color and b&w photographs and paintings, this book comprises humorous and sentimental tractor stories, essays, and memories about such topics as a farmer's first tractor, learning to drive a tractor, and the collection and restoration of old tractors. Annotation c. by Book
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Torgi the Tractor Once Upon a Farm
The story of Torgi begins as a young farm tractor, fresh out of the factory. Farms and tractors like Torgi were smaller than the tractors and farms of today. Torgi introduces young readers to life on the farm. Children learn about the earth, the plants, the farm animals, the work of farmers and that the food we love to eat comes from farms.Now, imagine turning the pages of Torgi the Tractor, and traveling back to a farm from another place and time. Are you ready for a visit to the farm? Let's go!
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