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Wisdom of the Last Farmer: Harvesting Legacies fr
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Wisdom of the Last Farmer: Harvesting Legacies fr Paperback - 2010 - 1st Edition

by Mas Masumoto, David

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  • Title Wisdom of the Last Farmer: Harvesting Legacies fr
  • Author Mas Masumoto, David
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Atria Books, Autobiography
  • Date 2010-06-01
  • Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ING9781439182420
  • ISBN 9781439182420 / 1439182426
  • Weight 0.52 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.2 x 0.6 in (21.59 x 13.21 x 1.52 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Death/Dying
    • Topical: Ecology
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Masumoto, David Mas, Farm life - California
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

Summary

David Mas Masumoto works a family farm, growing organic peaches, nectarines, and grapes. When Masumoto’s father has a stroke on the fields of their eighty-acre farm, Masumoto confronts life’s big questions: What do his and his father’s lives mean? What have they lived and worked for? “A fiercely tender book” (Deborah Madison), Wisdom of the Last Farmer “tells the most fascinating kind of story, reminding us that, at its best and most authentic, organic farming requires not only soul, but intimate knowledge of place, a deep grasp of subjects ranging from plant physiology to tractor repair, and unrelenting physical labor” (onEarth magazine). In the harvest of his father’s wisdom, and his own, gathered from a lifetime of farming and surviving, Mas finds the natural connections between generation and succession and life, death, and renewal. He tells how to tend and make things grow, and how to know when to let nature take over, weaving together stories of life and death to reveal age-old wisdom in what the The Oregonian called a “sweet taste of farming, family, loyalty, and dignity.” With insights full of beautiful, lyrical descriptions on how to nurture both the tangible and intangible, Masumoto’s quiet eloquence reveals how our own destinies are involved in the future of our food, the land, and the farm.

From the publisher

David Mas Masumoto is the award-winning author of Epitaph for a Peach and other books, popular columnist, spokesperson for organic farming, and a fellow at The Kellogg Foundation. A third-generation farmer, he grows certified organic peaches, nectarines, and grapes on his familyâÈçs eighty-acre California farm. He lives in Del Ray, California.

Media reviews

"A graceful meditation on the work of growing food and its meaning across generations. A peach of a book... worthy of placement alongside the best of Wendell Berry, Liberty Hyde Bailey and other literary farmers."
--Kirkus

About the author

David Mas Masumoto is the award-winning author of Epitaph for a Peach and other books, popular columnist, spokesperson for organic farming, and a fellow at The Kellogg Foundation. A third-generation farmer, he grows certified organic peaches, nectarines, and grapes on his family's eighty-acre California farm. He lives in Del Ray, California.