women farmers

Profiles fifteen women leaders in the food industry, and highlights their work in farming, culinary arts, activism, sustainability, and food science. Includes sidebars.

Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend.

Atina Diffley describes her life in organic farming and describes the storms and urban development that threatened her family's farm and the obstacle of a crude oil pipeline proposal.

"A memoir of one woman's search to understand the land she farms-and her own experience with ADHD"--.

Sarah Frey shares her story of growing up poor on her family's farm, and at the age of seventeen, taking control of the farm and turning it into a billion-dollar farming business.

Roger Mifflin travels with his book wagon through the countryside of England in 1915, bringing enlightenment to the people and having adventures.

Alexandra, the daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, becomes a wealthy land owner after she inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend.

Presents an edited version of the diary entries of Mary Knackstedt Dyck in which she recorded the details of her life on a Kansas farm during the Dust Bowl years between 1936 and 1941.

Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend.