Country Farm Touch & Feel Building Blocks by WJ Fantasy NEW

Dorothy Foreman German was born October 1, 1917 to George and Naomi Foreman in Pawnee, Missouri, joining older sister, Ruby. She and her family lived in a four room farmhouse where she spent twenty happy years enjoying all the fun and work of a farming family. Her childhood was spent as an active outdoor girl learning all she could about nature. From a very young age, her parents encouraged music and poem recitation. There were many opportunities to "perform" at church picnics and family/ neighborhood gatherings. Attending a one-room country school, she graduated from the eighth grade in 1931 with the highest honors in the district. Ribbon, her horse, took her to high school in Hatfield, Missouri daily, almost 6 miles each way. During those four years, she participated in school plays and assembly programs receiving many accolades and graduating as Valedictorian of her senior class. September 25, 1937, was her wedding day to Elden Newell German. This continued her life on a farm for almost twenty more years. It was during the first year of her marriage when she began to write. Dorothy enjoyed singing with her mother so much, the rhythms continued onto paper. It was Mother's Day 1938 when she had no money for a gift that she penned her first poem for her beloved mother. The title? "Mom". She sent this poem to a homemaker's radio program in Shenandoah, IA where it was read over the airwaves by Adella Shoemaker. In 1956, Elden and Dorothy moved their two young girls to central Iowa where she now resides. Dorothy continued writing and was urged by friends to join a writer's workshop. She felt she would be inferior to all those college graduates, but she attended anyway. It was the encouragement of these fellow writers that pressed her on. She has written over 150 poems with various subject matters and for several different occasions. Many of us have enjoyed Christmas poems from her for more than 35 years. Many more have been delighted by her poetry at various church fun

Chickens are hot! There's a chicken-farming boomlet on the rise, with upscale urban and suburban homeowners from every part of the country ordering fancy breeds of chickens, hiring architects to build elegant chicken coops in their backyards, and signing up for classes on how to raise a happy, healthy flock in a small space.Now Barbara Kilarski, a woman with a passion for poultry, offers a handbook that is as practical and encouraging as it is witty and entertaining. THE TOWN & COUNTRY CHICKEN provides the detailed information every aspiring chickenkeeper needs to know.Like home-grown vegetables, home-raised chickens put us in touch with our rural past, give us a sense of self-sufficiency, and provide food - eggs! - for the table that is a lot tastier than anything we could find at the supermarket. And chickens are fun! Like dogs, they bond with their owners, and like kids, they do the darnedest things.Kilarski regales the reader with tales spotlighting the joys of raising chickens, while at

Heart-warming stories of rescued farm animals from the author of Where the Blind Horse Sings.Picking up where she left off in Where the Blind Horse Sings, Kathy Stevens regales us with more tales of the rescued animals at Catskill Animal Sanctuary (CAS), some touching, some hilarious, all provocative. We meet Barbie, the broiler hen found hiding under a blue Honda in Brooklyn who falls for the animal ambassador Rambo, a ram with an uncanny sense of what others need. Then there’s Norma Rae, the turkey rescued from a “turkey bowl” just before Thanksgiving. There’s also Noah, a twenty-one-year-old stallion, starved and locked in a dark stall for his entire life until he came to the safety and plenty of CAS. Claude, the giant pink free-range pig, is but another of the “underfoot family, ” those who roam the barnyard, free and with dignity, interacting with their own and other species in startling and profound ways. The love Stevens has for these animals, and the amount of love they give her in return, is stunning and will make any reader more thoughtful of how we treat a whole class of animals in this country. Pigs, cows, chickens, turkeys, horses, goats, sheep, and more, march into CAS and into our hearts as we learn about their quirks and personalities and what makes us human. 36 color illustrations

This artistic glass table lamp features a 3-way reliable touch sensor control that lets you adjust the light you need with just a touch of your hand. No more trying to find the switch in a dark room, this lamp is always ready for your touch. Simply touch any metal surface and you will put this lamp through its paces of low-medium-high-off. The beautiful frosted glass shade has swirled panels with an etched floral design and a brushed gold finish for a disgusting look. Add a touch of light to your living spaces with this Touch Lamp. It has a brushed base and features an artistic floral display on a tinted glass shade. This lamp also features a polarized plug for an added touch of safety.

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Jeanine McMullen was a BBC producer in London when she went to Wales on assignment. There she fell in love--with Wales, its people, and most of all with the farm that on impulse she decided to buy. "Magical writing about animals and the country scene with glorious, gusting humor. I loved every word. Jeanine McMullen's book is absorbing, touching and funny and I found something inspiring in her zestful acceptance of life." --James Herriot

Heart-warming stories of rescued farm animals from the author of Where the Blind Horse Sings.Picking up where she left off in Where the Blind Horse Sings, Kathy Stevens regales us with more tales of the rescued animals at Catskill Animal Sanctuary (CAS), some touching, some hilarious, all provocative. We meet Barbie, the broiler hen found hiding under a blue Honda in Brooklyn who falls for the animal ambassador Rambo, a ram with an uncanny sense of what others need. Then there’s Norma Rae, the turkey rescued from a “turkey bowl” just before Thanksgiving. There’s also Noah, a twenty-one-year-old stallion, starved and locked in a dark stall for his entire life until he came to the safety and plenty of CAS. Claude, the giant pink free-range pig, is but another of the “underfoot family, ” those who roam the barnyard, free and with dignity, interacting with their own and other species in startling and profound ways. The love Stevens has for these animals, and the amount of love they give her in return, is stunning and will make any reader more thoughtful of how we treat a whole class of animals in this country. Pigs, cows, chickens, turkeys, horses, goats, sheep, and more, march into CAS and into our hearts as we learn about their quirks and personalities and what makes us human. 36 color illustrations

We have a growing hunger to know where our food comes from. In our increasingly corporate world, we are looking to get back in touch with our roots to the land. American Artisanal feeds this hunger as no book has before. The book celebrates eighteen of America’s leading food artisans–from Wood Prairie Farms potatoes in Maine to L. L. Lanier Honey in Florida, from Reed’s Ginger Brew in California to Earthy Delights mushrooms in Michigan. These are folks who are returning to the basics of sustainable, small-scale, or just plain high quality production. Food is a second career for many of these producers, who decided to drop out of the office rat race and pursue their real passion, literally in the field. In their inspirational stories we also can see the emergence of a true national cuisine. Also, woven throughout each chapter is the engaging history behind our foods–their natural origins and long journeys to cultivation. Recipes and ordering information are provided so you can enjoy these culinary delights at home.

An enchanting, haunting collection of stories by Crystal Wilkinson, a self-described Black, country girl and poet from rural Kentucky. The stories explore the joys and pain of the women of "Affrilachia", and will touch the reader profoundly. "I grew up on a farm in Indian Creek, Kentucky during the seventies. I swam in creeks and roamed the knobs and hills. We had an outhouse and no inside running water. Our house was heated by coal and wood-burning stoves and we lived so far back in the woods that we could get only one television station. But it was a place of beauty - trees, green grass and blue sky as far as you could see. I am country. Being country is as much a part of me as my full lips, wide hips, dreadlocks and high cheek bones. There are many Black country folks who have lived and are living in small towns, up hollers and across knobs. They are all over the South—scattered like milk thistle seeds in the wind. The stories in this book are centered in these places.” - CRYSTAL E. WILKINSON

Jeanine McMullen was a BBC producer in London when she went to Wales on assignment. There she fell in love--with Wales, its people, and most of all with the farm that on impulse she decided to buy. "Magical writing about animals and the country scene with glorious, gusting humor. I loved every word. Jeanine McMullen's book is absorbing, touching and funny and I found something inspiring in her zestful acceptance of life." --James Herriot