num_pages: 152
description: Bon Appetit Magazine's 20 Food Books to Read This SummerLos Angeles Magazine's Top 10 Summer Books for FoodiesFood Tank's Summer Reading ListThe river was in God's hands the cows in ours. So passed the days on Indian Farm a dairy operation on 700 acres of rich Illinois bottomland. In this collection Alan Guebert and his daughter-editor Mary Grace Foxwell recall Guebert's years on the land working as part of that all-consuming collaborative effort known as the family farm.Here are Guebert's tireless parents measuring the year not in months but in seasons for sewing haying and doing the books; Jackie the farmhand needing ninety minutes to do sixty minutes' work and cussing the entire time; Hoard the dairyman sore fingers wrapped in electrician's tape sharing wine and the prettiest Christmas tree ever; and the unflappable Uncle Honey spreading mayhem via mistreated machinery flipped wagons and the careless union of diesel fuel and fire.Guebert's heartfelt and humorous reminiscences depict the hard labor and simple pleasures to be found in ennobling work and show that in life as in farming Uncle Honey had it right with his succinct philosophy for overcoming the secret's not to stop.
language: English
title: The Land of Milk and Uncle Honey: Memories from the Farm of My Youth
publisher: University of Illinois Press