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Chicken justice and other unexpected lessons in country living / Steven Coffman.

Coffman, Steven. (Author). Coffman, Steven. How to walk a pig, and other country lessons in country living. (Added Author).

Summary:

What happens when two hippies with virtually no knowledge of country life decide to set up house on a 129-acre farm in Upstate New York? That's what Steven Coffman and his wife Bobbie did in the late summer of 1972, and in Back to the Farm he tells the whole story of their grand undertaking with great humor, pathos, and wit. It's all about the many animals--pigs, ducks, cows, horses, cats, dogs, and other country creatures--who share their lives, as well as about learning the ways of the land, getting in tune with nature's cycles, and raising a family. Coffman, who will become a *Country Living *columnist this year, centers his pieces around the animals that make up his new rural world, capturing the stubborn recalcitrance of a pig, the pony that steps into the living room, and the magical migration of magnificent Monarch butterflies.

Record details

ISBN: 1588162184
ISBN: 9781588162182
Physical Description: 240 pages ; 22 cm
Publisher: New York : Hearst Books, 2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Revised edition of: How to walk a pig, and other lessons in country living. c1995.

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Prologue: The Farm 11 -- 1 Transitional Cats 17 -- 2 Star 21 -- 3 Case of the Missing Chicken 26 -- 4 Wild Geese 28 -- 5 Cluster Flies and Indian Summer 31 -- 6 Ahog I-Pig Ironies 36 -- 7 Ahog II-How to Walk a Pig 39 -- 8 Ahog III-You've Got to Smile (with a Knife in Your Teeth) 42 -- 9 Deer Season 49 -- 10 Tina and Our First Spring 51 -- 11 Tina and Midnight 54 -- 12 Midnight and Linda Skink 61 -- 13 Mr. This and Mr. That 65 -- 14 Playing God (The Garden) 67 -- 15 Potato Beetles and Spittlebugs 71 -- 16 Insects on Parade 74 -- 17 Juniper Bonding 78 -- 18 Playing God (The Pond) 82 -- 19 Mating Newts 85 -- 20 Lure of the Pond 87 -- 21 Herons 90 -- 22 Paradise! 92 -- 23 Trouble in Paradise 94 -- 24 A New Year's Event 96 -- 25 Two Stands and a Potato 99 -- 26 Mason 108 -- 27 Chicken Justice 111 -- 28 Quills-Or, Where's James Herriot When You Really Need Him? 117 -- 29 Joker and Star 122 -- 30 Nameless Pigs 126 -- 31 Kitty and Shiver 128 -- 32 Chickens II 135 -- 33 A Migration of Monarchs 138 -- 34 Subfamily: House Pet Temporaria 142 -- 35 Chickens III 146 -- 36 Pony Prelude 148 -- 37 Smokey Joe 152 -- 38 Horse of a Different Color 155 -- 39 Visch and Hobbit 159 -- 40 Elijah 162 -- 41 Two Dogs 165 -- 42 Death of Star 169 -- 43 Mocha 173 -- 44 Ugly Bill 176 -- 45 Mutzkah 179 -- 46 Funerals 183 -- 47 Our Dirt Road 186 -- 48 Three Bears (Myth, Joke and Moral Lesson) 190 -- 49 Ends of Eden 194 -- 50 Grass Carp 197 -- 51 Mr. Pheasant 199 -- 52 Poopheads 202 -- 53 At the Feeders 204 -- 54 Swallows and Chickadees 207 -- 55 Blue Jays and Cardinals 211 -- 56 Mr. Cardinal 214 -- 57 Red Squirrels 220 -- 58 Last Spring 224 -- 59 Last Summer 228 -- 60 Last Fall 233 -- Epilogue: Last Winter/This Spring 236.