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On Farms and Rural Communities

Apps, Jerry
On Farms and Rural Communities
In a twenty-first-century landscape marked by unprecedented challenges, the relevance of agriculture and farms has never been more apparent. From the unsettling shortages experienced during the pandemic to recent fluctuations in the cost and availability of basic grocery items due to historic droughts and climate impacts, Americans are being reminded daily of the importance of rural communities. And yet, the reality of these farm communities a...

CHF 24.90

Planting an Idea

Apps, Jerry / Kassulke, Natasha
Planting an Idea
In Planting an Idea, authors Jerry Apps and Natasha Kassulke explore how critical and creative thinking can be applied to today's most pressing environmental concerns. Beginning with an overview of the environmental movement, the authors then explore both critical and creative thinking and systematically apply these methods to a wide variety of critical environmental problems. Starting with a background for each, the authors explore current cr...

CHF 28.50

A Summer of Peas and Pickles

Apps, Jerry
A Summer of Peas and Pickles
Bill Steiner, a farm boy, has just completed his first year of studies at the University of Wisconsin. To return to college in the fall, he knows he needs extra money. He takes a job at a pea cannery where he manages a small group of men. One of them, an alcoholic, threatens Bill with a gun when Bill empties the worker's bottle. Later in the summer, Bill manages a small pickle factory. He is learning that being the boss is more than a little c...

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The Wild Oak

Apps, Jerry
The Wild Oak
Billy Steiner, 16, is trying to decide what to do after high school, when so many adults seem to have predetermined this for him. Bill's search for answers is complicated when he encounters the mysterious happenings of the Wild Oak. Stories from the past say this tree allows people to look ahead in time. In a setting that portrays small-town and farm life in the 1950s, Bill is determined to solve the mystery of the tree so he can visualize his...

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Meet Me on the Midway: A History of Wisconsin Fairs

Apps, Jerry
Meet Me on the Midway: A History of Wisconsin Fairs
Jerry Apps explores the history of county and state fairs in Wisconsin, from their earliest incarnations as livestock exhibitions to their later multitudes of exhibits and demonstrations, grandstand entertainment, games and rides, and competitions of all sorts. Drawing on his extensive research, interviews, and personal experience as a 4-H leader, county extension agent, county fair judge, and lifelong fairgoer, Apps takes readers back through...

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Settlers Valley

Apps, Jerry
Settlers Valley
No matter what Reader's Digest would have you believe, C.J. Anderson wants you to know he's no hero. Broken and reeling from the untimely death of his parents, the young vet with PTSD begins working a small farm plot at the suggestion of his grandfather. As the land yields its first crops, C.J. begins to heal and contacts a few wounded Army friends to join him in Settlers Valley. They build a collective of sustainable farmers who called themse...

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Cheese

Apps, Jerry
Cheese
Wisconsin has not always been the dairy state, but cheese is a notable part of its heritage. Capturing the voices of farmers, milk haulers, makers, and graders, Jerry Apps provides a rich view into the history of cheese in the state, beginning with its humble origins in farmhouse kitchens. As he explores the extraordinary diversity of cheese products, he peppers his lively narrative with obscure lore. In this updated edition of a classic, Apps...

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The Civilian Conservation Corps in Wisconsin: Nature's Ar...

Apps, Jerry
The Civilian Conservation Corps in Wisconsin: Nature's Army at Work
Between 1933 and 1942, the Civilian Conservation Corps, a popular New Deal relief program, was at work across America. During the Great Depression, young men lived in rustic CCC camps planting trees, cutting trails, and reversing the effects of soil erosion. In his latest book, acclaimed environmental writer Jerry Apps presents the first comprehensive history of the CCC in Wisconsin. Apps guides readers around the state, from the Northwoods to...

CHF 27.50

Eat Rutabagas

Apps, Jerry
Eat Rutabagas
Jerry's dad knows that no one can resist the taste of breaking ground rutabagas. Follow Jerry and his dad as they plant, harvest and sell the cream of the rutabaga crop.

CHF 14.90

Simple Things: Lessons from the Family Farm

Apps, Jerry
Simple Things: Lessons from the Family Farm
In this collection of thoughtful essays, Jerry Apps reflects on the "simple things" that made up everyday life on the farm--an old cedar fencepost, Fanny the farm dog, the trusty tools used for farmwork, the kerosene lantern the family gathered around each morning and evening. As he holds each item up to the light for a closer look, he plumbs his memories for the deeper meanings of these objects, sharing the values instilled in him during his ...

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Every Farm Tells a Story: A Tale of Family Values

Apps, Jerry
Every Farm Tells a Story: A Tale of Family Values
During Jerry Apps's childhood on the farm, he witnessed the second great revolution in farming--the arrival of electric lines to rural areas, running water in barns, and new farm machines like tractors, balers, and combines. In Every Farm Tells a Story he traces that revolution by way of costs found in his mother's account books for everything from the family's first milking machine to the used telephone pole that supported their first electri...

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Living a Country Year: Wit and Wisdom from the Good Old Days

Apps, Jerry
Living a Country Year: Wit and Wisdom from the Good Old Days
Jerry App's farm stories open the barn door to understanding life in the country. "Even with the all the hard work, we had more time (perhaps we took more time) to enjoy what was all around us: nights filled with starlight, days with clear blue skies and puffy clouds. Wonderful smells everywhere--fresh mown hay, wildflowers, and apple blossoms. Interesting sounds--the rumble of distant thunder, an owl calling in the woods, a flock of Canada ge...

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Once a Professor: A Memoir of Teaching in Turbulent Times

Apps, Jerry
Once a Professor: A Memoir of Teaching in Turbulent Times
Farm boy professor shares a life of lessons. "I never wanted to be a professor, " writes Jerry Apps in the introduction to Once a Professor. Yet a series of unexpected events and unplanned experiences put him on an unlikely path--and led to a thirty-eight-year career at the University of Wisconsin. In this continuation of the Apps life story begun in his childhood memoir Limping through Life, Wisconsin's celebrated rural storyteller shares sto...

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Cold as Thunder

Apps, Jerry
Cold as Thunder
Since the Eagle Party took power in the United States, all schools and public utilities have been privatized, churches and libraries closed, and independent news media shut down. Drones buzz overhead in constant surveillance of the populace, and the open internet has been replaced by the network of the New Society Corporation.

CHF 43.50

In a Pickle

Apps, Jerry
In a Pickle
The year is 1955. Andy Meyer manages the pickle factory in Link Lake, a rural town where the farms are small, the conversation is meandering, and the feeling is Midwestern. Andy, himself the owner of a half-acre pickle patch, works part-time for the Harlow Company, a conflict that places him between the family farm and the big corporation.

CHF 34.90