Betting on the Farm: An Heirloom Childhood
Barsotti, Thaddeus
It is the peak of harvest season and Kathleen Barsotti, owner of a struggling organic farm, dies of cancer at fifty-one, leaving Thaddeus, the twenty-year-old middle of her four sons, to harvest and sell twenty acres of heirloom tomatoes and cultivate new crops, all in less than three months. Otherwise, the brothers will lose the farm and even worse, their mother's legacy. Meanwhile, they learn the hard way that their mother was the glue holdi...