So I pick up Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs and Parenting at the recommendation from a friend of mine that lives in the Heartland. I realized it was the same author of Population: 485, about a sleepy little town in northern Wisconsin, which I read last summer. Perry picks up where he left off, but also goes back from where he came. This is not a how to book about chickens and farming. It is a memoir of life on a land that needs to be tended and how family comes into play. The suprising thing thus far about this book is the wonderful reflections of his life when he was a boy growing up on the farm with his parents and the remembrance of the up to 60 foster kids that came into his life.
You will laugh and you will cry (all the things you hope for in a book). Great book from a great writer and farmer.
Check this book out at your library.
