Weeds: A Farm Daughter's Lament

by Evelyn I. Funda

Book Overview

In Thomas Jefferson's day, 90 percent of the population worked on family farms. Today, in a world dominated by agribusiness, less than 1 percent of Americans claim farm-related occupations. What was lost along the way is something that Evelyn I. Funda experienced firsthand when, in 2001, her parents sold the last parcel of the farm they had worked since they married in 1957. Against that landscape of loss, Funda explores her family's three-generation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803244967
• ISBN13: 9780803244962
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"