Trauma Farm

Author : Brian Brett
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1926812387
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trauma Farm written by Brian Brett and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author transforms a single day on his small farm into a “gorgeously thoughtful meditation on the natural world” and our place in it (Vancouver Sun). The acclaimed poet and author Brian Brett takes readers on an irreverent and illuminating journey through a day in the life of his small island farm in British Columbia, affectionately named Trauma Farm. With fascinating ruminations on everything from the natural history of farming to the horrors of industrial slaughterhouses, Brett’s day of tending to his farm becomes a Joycean epic of agrarian life. Brett moves from the tending of livestock, poultry, orchards, gardens, machinery, and fields to the social intricacies of rural communities and, finally, to an encounter with a magnificent deer in the silver moonlight of a magical field. Brett understands both tall tales and rigorous science as he explores the small mixed farm—meditating on the perfection of the egg and the nature of soil while also offering a scathing critique of agribusiness. Whether discussing the uses and misuses of gates, examining the energy of seeds, or bantering with his family, farm hands, and neighbors, Brett remains aware of the miracles of life, birth, and death that confront the rural world every day. Trauma Farm was a 2009 book of the year in the Times Literary Supplement and the Globe & Mail, and winner of Writers’ Trust Canadian Non-Fiction Prize.

Author : Leah Penniman
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603587616
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Farming While Black written by Leah Penniman and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Farming While Black is the first comprehensive "how to" guide for aspiring African-heritage growers to reclaim their dignity as agriculturists and for all farmers to understand the distinct, technical contributions of African-heritage people to sustainable agriculture. At Soul Fire Farm, author Leah Penniman co-created the Black and Latino Farmers Immersion (BLFI) program as a container for new farmers to share growing skills in a culturally relevant and supportive environment led by people of color. Farming While Black organizes and expands upon the curriculum of the BLFI to provide readers with a concise guide to all aspects of small-scale farming, from business planning to preserving the harvest. Throughout the chapters Penniman uplifts the wisdom of the African diasporic farmers and activists whose work informs the techniques described--from whole farm planning, soil fertility, seed selection, and agroecology, to using whole foods in culturally appropriate recipes, sharing stories of ancestors, and tools for healing from the trauma associated with slavery and economic exploitation on the land. Woven throughout the book is the story of Soul Fire Farm, a national leader in the food justice movement." --

Author : Matthew Gavin Frank
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803240147
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pot Farm written by Matthew Gavin Frank and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After eight months in his childhood home helping his mother through her bout with cancer, Matthew Frank and his wife were themselves desperate for comfort. They found sanctuary in the most unlikely place—amid a collection of outcasts and eccentrics on a plot of land miles outside their comfort zone: a “mostly medical” marijuana farm in California. Pot Farm details the strange, sublime, and sometimes dangerous goings-on at Weckman Farm, a place with hidden politics and social hierarchies, populated by recovering drug addicts, alternative healers, pseudo-hippie kids, and medical marijuana users looking to give back. There is also Lady Wanda, the massive, elusive, wealthy, and heavily armed businesswoman who owns the farm and runs it from beneath a housedress and a hat of peacock feathers. Frank explores the various roles that allow this industry to work—from field pickers to tractor drivers, cooks to yoga instructors, managers to snipers, illegal immigrants to legal revisionists, and the delivery crew to the hospice workers on the other end. His book also looks at the blurry legislation regulating the marijuana industry as well as the day-to-day logistics of running such an operation and all the relationships that brings into play. Through firsthand observations and experiences (some influenced by the farm’s cash crop), interviews, and research, Pot Farm exposes a thriving but unsung faction of contemporary American culture.

Author : Baker, Marion
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1522502297
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Identifying, Treating, and Preventing Childhood Trauma in Rural Communities written by Baker, Marion and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2016-06-09 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there have been great strides made in the treatment options available to trauma victims, there is a noticeable gap in the availability of medical, social, and psychological options in rural communities. As these hurdles gain more recognition, especially in regards to traumatized children, research efforts have been intensified in an effort to increase the overall awareness of and find solutions to the improper treatment being provided. Identifying, Treating, and Preventing Childhood Trauma in Rural Communities depicts the issues and challenges rural areas face when treating victims of trauma, especially children and adolescents. Featuring information on language and cultural barriers, as well as the lack of resources available within these rustic environments, this publication serves as a critical reference for researchers, clinicians, educators, social workers, and medical providers.

Author : I. Convery
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230227619
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animal Disease and Human Trauma written by I. Convery and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-08-20 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many disasters are approached by researchers, managers and policymakers as if they have a clear beginning, middle and end. But often the experience of being in a disaster is not like this. This book offers non-linear, non-prescriptive ways of thinking about disasters and allows the people affected by disaster the chance to speak.

Author : James A. Dosman
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780849301605
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Principles of Health and Safety in Agriculture written by James A. Dosman and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1989-10-31 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This indispensible new text is a comprehensive treatment of health and safety problems in agriculture and related industries. Respiratory health risks, grain dust exposures, occupational asthma, chronic lung disease, chemical exposures, incidence of cancer in farmers, accidents and injuries, and stress and psychiatric problems are addressed, from basic science to practical clinical aspects. This useful handbook provides a wealth of information for practicing clinicians, researchers, public health workers, those engaged in occupational health, programming, private industry, governmental public health departments, and farmers themselves.

Author : Melvin L. Myers
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780788112256
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Papers and Proceedings of the Surgeon General's Conference on Agricultural Safety and Health written by Melvin L. Myers and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1994-07 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this conference was to raise consciousness, build coalitions, disseminate information, and encourage action to prevent injury and diseases in agriculture. Covers surveillance; research in chemical, biological, mechanical and physical hazards; intervention (protecting agricultural workers from hazards, and safe behaviors among adults and children), and much more. Over 150 papers, poster and video abstracts. Charts, tables and maps. Index.

Author : April Graham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578604015
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spare Changing for Trauma written by April Graham and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age 13 April finds herself walking down the traumatic path of being a homeless youth, in these pages, I share my personal accounts of pain and how plant allies were the only comfort I often had. Through these painful chapters, we will learn how these plants were not only able to comfort me but to heal me.

Author : M. Balaev
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137365943
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Approaches in Literary Trauma Theory written by M. Balaev and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection argues that trauma in literature must be read through a theoretical pluralism that allows for an understanding of trauma's variable representations that include yet move beyond the concept of trauma as pathological and unspeakable.

Author : Galit Seliktar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781908007001
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Farm 54 written by Galit Seliktar and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farm 54 is a collection of three semi-autobiographical stories addressing three important periods in the life of the protagonist, Noga, born at the start of the 1970's and growing up in Israel's rural periphery. Substitute Lifeguard (1981) finds her towards the end of her childhood as she experiences a family trauma, a blessing and a birthday. Spanish Perfume (1983) brings her to teenage in the wake of the First Lebanon War whilst Houses (1989) portrays her passage to adulthood and hence military service in the occupied territories.These stories present the disturbing underground dimensions of adolescence and the dangers and traumas that subvert the superficial tranquillity of youth in the countryside. While these Israeli childhood stories take place in the shadow of war and occupation, they eventually also reflect universal feelings, passions and experiences.