A Great Read

Last week I finished reading "The Wisdom Of The Radish" by Lynda Hopkins. The book is the interesting story of the first year or so that she and her fiance became small-scale farmers on a plot of 3 acres lent to them by her fiance's father.

I actually learned quite a bit about farming through the amusing accounts of the trials and tribulations of Lynda and Emmett's first year. While I don't have a strong desire to become a farmer, I do wish to educate myself on where my food comes from and this quick read did so in an entertaining way.

Lynda and Emmett start off as vegetable farmers and soon work up to roosters, hens, sheep and goats. I enjoyed the book a great deal and found their website, http://wisdomoftheradish.com/ to be great as well. The site began prior to the book, so it's not just a website praising the book. Instead, it has a few years of blog postings, written much the same way as the book, about life on their little farm.

For those of you that want to buy the book, it's available at Amazon here.