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Cold Antler Farm: A Memoir of Growing Food and Celebrating Life on a Scrappy Six-Acre Homestead

by Jenna Woginrich
Roost: Shambhala. Jun. 2014. 224p. ISBN 9781611801033. pap. $16.95; ebk. ISBN 9780834829671. ANIMAL HUSBANDRY
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Woginrich (Made from Scratch: Discovering the Pleasures of a Handmade Life; Chick Days: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Raising Chickens from Hatching to Laying; Barnheart: The Incurable Longing for a Farm of One's Own) runs a small farm in Washington County, NY. This is a relatively new endeavor for her, and she describes her experiences in terms of the old agrarian calendar—the Wheel of the Year. A year on a farm is punctuated by many necessary events—breeding sheep, planting the garden, shearing sheep, harvesting the garden, and much, much more. She details these events poetically while explaining the hard job of running a farm, work that is meditative and cathartic. She is homesteading, attempting to live off the land and off the grid. Each chapter is an essay describing a particular adventure she has had in this new life.
VERDICT Homesteading advice, some recipes, and a good dose of humility make this a most enjoyable read for anyone who is interested in living a life that's more in tune with natural rhythms.
Reviewed by Diana Hartle, Univ. of Georgia Science Lib., Athens , Jun 06, 2014
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