family farms

With his father in jail and his mother working full-time, fourteen-year-old Billy Baggs finds himself in charge of running the family farm in northern Minnesota and having to give up the thing he loves most--baseball.

The story of an Iowa farmer who decides to retire in 1979 and turns over his valuable land to his three daughters.

The story of an Iowa farmer who decides to retire in 1979 and turns over his valuable land to his three daughters.

A collection of short stories by Jim Heynen.

Melissa, a young girl, tells what it is like to live on a crop farm, and provides information about growing, picking and marketing crops.

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

Explains what a farm is, what happens there, who works there, and the various items and animals that can be found there.

Pictures and text follow the history of a farm from medieval times to the twenty-first century, looking at how the tasks and tools involved in farming changed over the years.