Turn Here Sweet Corn - 9780816677726

Turn Here Sweet CornOrganic Farming Works\nAuthor(s): Atina Diffley\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816677726, 978-0816677726\nSynopsis\nWhen the hail starts to fall, Atina Diffley doesnt compare it to golf balls. Shes a farmer. Its as big as a B-size potato. As her bombarded land turns white, she and her husband Martin huddle under a blanket and reminisce: the one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds; the eleven-inch rainfall (that broccoli turned out gorgeous); the hail disaster of 1977. The romance of farming washed away a long time ago, but the love? Never. In telling her story of working the land, coaxing good food from the fertile soil, Atina Diffley reminds us of an ultimate truth: we live in relationships-with the earth, plants and animals, families and communities. \n\nA memoir of making these essential relationships work in the face of challenges as natural as weather and as unnatural a.