Monthly Archives: December 2011
California Agriculture Jobs
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The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love $12.95 “This book is the story of the two love affairs that interrupted the trajectory of my life: one with farming—that dirty, concupiscent art—and the other with a complicated and exasperating farmer.”Single, thirtysomething, working as a writer in New York City, Kristin Kimball was living life as an adventure. But she was beginning to feel a sense of longing for a family and for home. When she int… |
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Beasts of the Field: A Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769-1913 $20.95 Written by one of America’s preeminent labor historians, this book is the definitive account of one of the most spectacular, captivating, complex and strangely neglected stories in Western history—the emergence of migratory farmworkers and the development of California agriculture.Street has systematically worked his way through a mountain of archival materials—more than 500 manuscript… |
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Pot Farm $16.95 After eight months in his childhood home helping his mother through her bout with cancer, Matthew Frank and his wife were themselves desperate for comfort. They found sanctuary in the most unlikely place—amid a collection of outcasts and eccentrics on a plot of land miles outside their comfort zone: a “mostly medical” marijuana farm in California.Pot Farm details the strange, sublime, and so… |
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