num_pages: 288
description: A tantalizing memoir of the authors love affair with farming food and a freckle-faced farmerand her journey of self-discovery along the way.Rochelle a classically trained cook and devoted foodie was nursing a broken heart and frustrated with her yet-to-take-off writing career when she was assigned to write an article about a small full-diet farm in central New York. It took just one day of moving hay bales feeding pigs and tapping maple sap for her to become hooked on farm life. The air was fresh her muscles felt useful and the smells from the kitchen where the farmhands gathered at the end of the day were intoxicating.All these plus a sweet mysterious young farmer whose soulful gaze meets her own set in motion The Call of the Farm. Rochelle Bilows enticing memoir charts the unexpected year that unfolds as she immerses herself in life on the farmhelping to care for livestock grow vegetables work the farm-stand and as the designated cook prepare each days meals. Bilow also sensitively portrays the arc of her passionate romance with that handsome freckled farmer. Honest self-aware and wonderfully tender The Call of the Farm is for anyone who has daydreamed about farm lifeor who has fallen too deeply in love.
language: English
title: The Call of the Farm
publisher: The Experiment