Author Description

Essays on life on the Ohio farm that the Deering family has owned for almost one hundred years. The author writes, “What do I think should be preserved by others based on what I lived during my rst eighteen years living an agricultural existence? A full under-standing and deep appreciation about the growing of food by all segments of our population. The realization that it is still done best by those who sink their own deep roots—psychologically, morally, and physically—into the soil: land-owning farmers. That the interdependence of farm folks neighboring with one another is immediate, open, indispensable, and inevitably sustaining for all to be somehow celebrated. That safeguarding the environment, its rain, its soil, its air, and all their inter-dynamics powered by the sun 93 million miles away be seen as our communal obligation. That we who were formed by the labors, the weather, the products, and the blessings of rural cultures gure out how to convey the best of those experiences to the uninitiated.”