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A farmwife for 45 years, Rachel Peden believed that the family farm'sbest crop is a "harvest of the spirit." In Speak to the Earth, she looks at life --domestic and wild, human and critter -- through the eyes of someone who witnessesnine seasons of the year rather than the typical four. Peden views the farm as "aplace of opportunity simultaneous with obligation, an immaculate fitting-together ofplant and animal life." Each year yields an abund...

Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, c1966 by Rachel Peden."--T.p. verso.

Rural Free, first published in 1961, beautifully conveys the joys offamily life on an Indiana farm. Marked by the slow pace and rich variety of seasonalchange, Rachel Peden's narrative offers an authentic month-by-month chronicle of herfamily's daily adventures. Today, as the slow-food movement gathers support and moreurban dwellers return to the land to plant roots again in honest soil, Peden'sstories of country life and her lessons on sustai...