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Minick, Jim, 1964-

The blueberry years : a memoir of farm and family / Jim Minick.

1st ed.

New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2010.

xiii, 328 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm

"The Blueberry Years is a mouthwatering and delightful memoir based on Jim Minick's experiences as an organic blueberry farmer. This story of one couple, one farm, and one thousand bushes transports readers so that they experience the joys and frustrations of creating and operating one of the mid-Atlantic's first certified-organic, pick-your-own blueberry farms. Written by a farmer who also is a poet, The Blueberry Years follows in the vein of The Omnivore's Dilemma or Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, where lyrical writing captures a well-told story about food, family, and the choices we make with every bite"--Page 2 of cover.

Minick, Jim, 1964- -- Homes and haunts.

Minick, Jim, 1964- -- Family.

Fruit growers -- United States -- Biography.

Farm life -- Virginia -- Floyd County.

Fruit-culture -- Virginia -- Floyd County.

Blueberries -- Virginia -- Floyd County.

Autobiographies.

Includes bibliographical references.

Root and Seed (1991-1995) -- Meeting the Berries -- Meeting the Field -- Blue Blood -- Blue Interlude Our Hero -- Test Plot -- Blue Interlude Latin Laurel Hells -- Not to Bee -- Meeting joe -- Cleared Field -- Blue Interlude New Farmers and Failure -- Joe's Holey Spreader -- Homestead Hint Number 1: Forget the Rope -- Spying -- Blue Interlude Blues in History -- What We Fear -- Not-Manual -- Grow (1995-1996) -- "Grow, Little Plant" -- Blue Interlude Woking off of the Farm -- College of Mulch and Sciences -- Blue Interlude Roots and Fungi -- Homestead Hint Number 2: Throw Out the Electric Clippers -- Homesteading Alone? -- Relief -- Certified -- Blue Interlude Meditation on Organic -- Meeting the Mennonites -- Bees, Blooms, and the First Berry -- Fruit (1997-1999) -- Filling the Field -- Blue Interlunde Pickling with HD -- First Official Picker -- Stricken -- How To -- Blue Interlude Frederick Coville -- Wired -- My Folks and Manny -- Blue Interlude Elizabeth White -- Handful of Jewels: A Day in the Life -- Shaking Free -- Blue Interlude Other Colors -- Hungry -- Berry Hut -- Worms -- Blue Interlude Blues Evolution -- Affinity -- Forgetfulness -- Don't You Know -- Religious Moments -- New Religion -- Blue Interlude The Benefits of Organic -- To Market -- Blue Interlude Eating Local -- Homestead Hint Number 3: Spray or Pray -- Sweetness -- Pursuing Art -- Thursdays with Brian, Fridays with Chico -- Scars -- End of a Season -- Prune (2000) -- Pruning -- Different Dream? -- Uncle Nathan -- What Else? -- Hired Help -- Regulars -- Blue Interlude Blue Lit -- Buckets -- Variety -- Blue Interlude Blue Movies -- Kids -- Spies and Lies -- Jazz of a Perfect Weed -- Blue Interlude Blue Songs -- Fourth of July -- American Sushi -- What They Lacked -- Blue Interlude The Benefits of Blue -- Certain Tenderness -- Blue Interlude Blues Today -- Harvest (2001-2002) -- Frozen -- Blue Interlude Our Problems -- Bit -- Still They Come -- Blue Interlude Listening at Whitesbog -- Critters -- Joe's Blues -- Why Move? -- PA Picking Again -- Blue Interlude Costs -- Searching for a Single Berry.

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