{"product_id":"making-hay-9781493036981","title":"Making Hay","description":"\"Making Hay takes one of the least common denominators in rural American life and gives it real glory. Klinkenborg is funny, learned, elegant, and accurate every single minute.\"--Thomas McGuane \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Klinkenborg is our modern Thoreau.\"--Tom Brokaw \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A marvelous picture of rural life and of families at work. This is a fascinating excursion into American farmland.\"--Publishers Weekly \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the wonders of alfalfa, the \"miracle plant,\" to barbed wire and the myriad difficulties of operating tractors and side rakes, renowned author Verlyn Klinkenborg paints a stunning and memorable portrait of life on American family farms. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMaking Hay gives an unforgettable glimpse of everyday life on the farms of Iowa, Minnesota, and Montana. In beautiful, deceptively simple prose touched with humor and affection, Klinkenborg evokes a way of life at risk, and weaves a marvelous story of the richness of rural living.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Lyons Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781493036981\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.40d","brand":"Verlyn Klinkenborg","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51445580857525,"sku":"9781493036981","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_4b49011b-e58e-476f-b55b-3e87b6974a33.jpg?v=1753799073","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/making-hay-9781493036981","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}