Things We Make

The new site looks great!

2011-10-18T13:15:22.074-05:00

The new site looks great!

I grew up on a farm in southern Indiana. The first...

2011-10-17T10:53:22.429-05:00

I grew up on a farm in southern Indiana. The first time I drove a tractor was to pick up a field of baled hay with my Daddy and uncles. I was 13 yo and the tractor was a 1937 Farmall with steel lugs on the wheels and a crank start. It was a huge adventure for me!

Yum! These look fabulous!

2011-10-17T10:47:09.887-05:00

Yum! These look fabulous!

I love farms for everything they do to provide foo...

2011-10-16T18:22:38.544-05:00

I love farms for everything they do to provide food for our nation. To me it is a good day if I spent more time DOING vs WATCHING. I love farmers because they are doers and don't have time to sit around watching the world go by.

This book is a great idea and I love when drawings...

2011-10-16T13:59:09.412-05:00

This book is a great idea and I love when drawings are explanatory. And I love farms and animals because they're hands on and interactive. Cheers!

I love farms for more reasons than I can count! an...

2011-10-16T12:25:23.907-05:00

I love farms for more reasons than I can count! animals too. mostly for local farmers for providing us with such delicious food to eat each day.

What a lovely book - I'm a big fan of Julia...

2011-10-16T09:38:28.504-05:00

What a lovely book - I'm a big fan of Julia's art. I grew up on a farm. I loved it. I miss it.

OooH! my husband is an organic veggie farm manager...

2011-10-16T00:39:44.322-05:00

OooH! my husband is an organic veggie farm manager so we get the most wonderful seasonal produce but best of all is our 4 year old who loves to proudly tell everyone daddy drives a tractor!

Oooh! Love Julia's work and it looks like an a...

2011-10-16T00:16:24.814-05:00

Oooh! Love Julia's work and it looks like an amazing book. I love farms because to me farms = Iowa and I love Iowa. Iowa is where I went to college and launched my career. I wouldn't be where I am today without Iowa.

I love my CSA farm because it's local and orga...

2011-10-15T14:13:32.461-05:00

I love my CSA farm because it's local and organic and the food is out of this world. I love that nature forces us to slow down and pay attention.

Hello, thanks for the interview. I think this illu...

2011-10-15T09:48:52.461-05:00

Hello, thanks for the interview. I think this illustrated book is a great idea to learn about life on the farm. I love farms and the countryside because I've always lived in cities so they take me away from the fast-paced lifestyle I'm used to and remind me of all the glories of "slow living".
Grace

liberalsprinkles at gmail dot com

My husband & I are chefs & we spend most o...

2011-10-14T22:40:32.633-05:00

My husband & I are chefs & we spend most of our time thinking about & selecting the best produce from our local farms. Our 1yr old son Jasper would love this book!!

Sounds amazing. We're putting in more fruit tr...

2011-10-14T20:08:14.301-05:00

Sounds amazing. We're putting in more fruit trees on our new place, but we've got years and years before we can hope for big harvests.
(ps. We're glad you hosted the Farm Anatomy blog tour so we could run across you! I guess everyone is neighbors in the world of the internet, but it's fun to run across another blogger so geographically near to us)

We love that there is always something new to be e...

2011-10-14T20:02:17.123-05:00

We love that there is always something new to be explored on farms. Crazy old machinery (or the old machinery bits we keep digging up in our garden), animals wild and domestic, and it all changes again and again as the year passes.
We've been living in farm country (in Iowa) for a little under a year now, and have fallen hard in love with farms.

I love farms because every year my Mom would take ...

2011-10-14T19:18:42.083-05:00

I love farms because every year my Mom would take my younger siblings and I to pick apples and pumpkins. We would always carve the pumpkins and roast the seeds! Fresh roasted seeds are the best! I still love going to the farm and now I bake fresh pies or crisps after... which is also delicious!

I love farms because they remind me of my last vis...

2011-10-14T14:31:12.858-05:00

I love farms because they remind me of my last visit to my sister in Idaho, and of her dreams of having one day a farm of her own.

I love farms because my grandad grew up on one. An...

2011-10-14T13:27:27.050-05:00

I love farms because my grandad grew up on one. And cheese is made on farms. And there's nothing better in this whole wide world than cheese!

I love farms because my aunt and uncle have a smal...

2011-10-14T13:09:39.378-05:00

I love farms because my aunt and uncle have a small goat farm on the top of a bluff in Wisconsin. We go there every Memorial Day and Labor Day to sit around the fire pit, cook food communally, pick stuff out of their garden, ride horses, and pet the goats. In my heart, that farm is home.

I'm excited about this book! Thanks, Amy, for featuring it.

I love farms, because I actually live on a farm! M...

2011-10-14T10:27:56.960-05:00

I love farms, because I actually live on a farm! My neighbors are a bunch of cows & believe or not, llamas. I grew up in the city, and work in the city, but living in the country side is so peaceful to me.

As much as I love city life, I love escaping it to...

2011-10-14T09:35:31.721-05:00

As much as I love city life, I love escaping it too! And there's no better place to do so than a farm.

Such a gorgeous book! I have recently moved to Fra...

2011-10-14T09:26:39.430-05:00

Such a gorgeous book! I have recently moved to France and feel very lucky for living ten minutes away from a gorgeous farm. I try and buy most of my produce from there and can't wait to go apple picking later this week. Cooking fresh from the farm is a dream come true.

Ooh I'm also already a fan of Julia's work...

2011-10-14T08:19:57.898-05:00

Ooh I'm also already a fan of Julia's work, and this book looks right up my alley! I haven't spent enough time on farms, but I'm hoping to remedy that in short order. I guess my favorite thing about a farm is just the concept of self-sufficiency, of having on your land what you need to survive and eating food you raised and grew yourself.

Great haul!!!

2011-10-11T20:09:28.345-05:00

Great haul!!!

Yum! Chocolate and rice krispies, what could be be...

2011-10-08T21:11:52.118-05:00

Yum! Chocolate and rice krispies, what could be better!

It's beautiful - the hand stitching looks so c...

2011-10-05T12:46:56.330-05:00

It's beautiful - the hand stitching looks so charming (and neat might I add).