Lambsquarters: Scenes from a Handmade Life

✍ Scribed by McLean, Barbara

• Book ID: 107901974
• Publisher: Random House of Canada
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 247 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780307370440

✦ Synopsis

At the age of twenty-four, Barbara McLean and her husband, Thomas, decided to make their home in the country, near a village called Alderney in Grey County, Ontario. Together they became homeowners, farmers and, eventually, parents. They called their farm Lambsquarters, and they remain there today, twenty-six years later.

Life on a farm is a cycle of neverending work and discovery. Barbara and her family develop close relationships with every living thing: the hearty lambs and the fragile ones, the pumpkins and the potatoes and the hollyhocks in the barnyard, a family of bluebirds with problems of its own. What at first seems an intensely independent act -- having one's own land and space -- becomes more meaningful once it becomes possible to connect with the larger community. Strong bonds are formed with neighbours who share both in grief and in celebration.

In striking portraits that are intensely intimate and yet reverberate with the universal hum of life,...