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A Very Small Farm
By William Paul Winchester
Illustrations by Carol Stanton
In the tradition of Thoreau’s Walden, William Paul Winchester offers a chronicle of everyday life on Southwind, his farm of twenty acres. As a subsistence farmer, he builds his own house and barn, puts in a garden and an orchard, acquires a milk cow, and takes up beekeeping. In these pages, we hear his thoughts on such subjects as the weather, seasonal changes, machinery repair, the flora and fauna of the region, and vegetarian cooking. His philosophy, like his lifestyle, is simple, yet profoundly wise.
“Winchester’s prose reminds us of the sacred aspects of daily tasks. . . . A Very Small Farm is a wonderful chronicling of the pleasures of a simpler life than that afforded most urban dwellers long since removed from the rural life.”—Midwest Book Review
William Paul Winchester graduated from the University of Tulsa with a degree in botany. His essays have appeared in Country Journal, Buying America Back, Oklahoma Today, and elsewhere. He continues to live on his small farm in Collinsville, Oklahoma. Carol Stanton is Creative Services Director for the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra in Missouri.
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