Scratching the Woodchuck: Nature on an Amish Farm

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Natural History Writing at Its Best.......2001-12-15

Scratching the Woodchuck is quite simply the best piece of natural history writing I have read in decades. David Kline is a keen observer, a competent naturalist, and an eloquent writer. We need more books like this in our all too technology-based, human-centered society.

This book takes the reader back to humanity's roots, and to our essential relationships with other species that inhabit this planet with us. Something beautiful and important is found here that has been lost to many of us for a long, long time.

Antidote for institutionalized scizophrenia.......2000-07-19

Scratching the Woodchuck, Nature on an Amish Farm by David Kline sits on my credenza at work. I reach for it when I need an antidote for institutionalized schizophrenia.

Scratching the Woodchuck is a collection of about 60 short essays. They are organized into four catagories: The Farmstead, The Fields, The Woods, Creeks and Sky and The Community. The essays are rich in adjectives and read at a slow and leisurely pace.

For example:

"I was startled the other day to see a meadow vole (one of those fat little short-tailed mice that abound in meadows and fields) come charging out of the grass-covered ditch and dash across the road as fast as its stumpy legs could carry it. Before the sprinting vole had reached the safety of the opposite ditch, it was followed by two more of its kin. These, however, instead of racing across the road, made large half-circles and then ran back into the same ditch twenty feet down the road.

I stopped and watched the spot where the meadow voles had emerged. Soon a small pointed nose poked through the grasses and two obsidian eyes glared at me--a weasel. No wonder the voles were scared silly. Of all their enemies, nothing alarms the mouse family as much as the weasel, because there is no place to hide from the long, slender killer." Page 42.

Plusses:

*The essays are short. You can pick up the book and regain sanity in about 2.76 minutes.

*The essays are consistently high quality writing. There is none of the unevenness that results when a book is banged out in a hurry.

Minuses:

*The book does not come back quickly when loaned out. "Oh, I was going to bring it back today but my wife started reading it." kind of thing.

*Ultimately, you finish the book and you want more.

Scratching the Woodchuck is a good book to pick up if you feel like the pea-in-a-whistle. Mr. Kline's prose will slow your heart rate and reduce your blood pressure. Mr. Kline assures us that life only appears to be fragmented. The patient observer can find the connections.

Scratching the Woodchuck is probably *not* a good choice if your preference for escapism-liturature tends toward verb-packed, staccato writing (like Tom Clancy). You will find Scratching the Woodchuck maddeningly slow and boring.

Kline's book became a companion.......1998-10-29

This story was a wonderful, lighthearted portrayal of nature on Kline's farm. The stories were short and a quick read. I found myself reading one story, every night before bed. I was not looking forward to the end of what became a daily companion. Kline is able to paint with words. He excels at describing life's simple, natural pleasures. This book could be compared to a more recent Sand County Almanac, but I didn't find that book as interesting. A good read!

Enchanting look at nature on a most personal level........1998-09-14

Reading Kline's book makes one want to immediately ditch city life. This talented writer takes a look at nature in simple, basic terms, bringing it close to everyone who has ever watched a spider in a web, or looked at tracks in fresh snow. His unpretentious approach is precisely the way that nature should be viewed. . . with knowledge, joy and kinship with the out of doors. (Review by Judy Wade, author of Seasonal Guide to the Natural Year; Southern California and Baja, published by Fulcrum and also available through Amazon.)

Thoreau has a modern counterpart........1998-03-17

Any one who has a personal copy of Walden with heavy underlining and pages falling away from the binding will read the words of David Kline with respect. This is a man so completely at one with his physical world, so at peace with his chosen lifestyle, and so appreciative of his environment that he makes Thoreau seem under-developed. While Kline, an Amish farmer who lives an economic life far out-of-step with his contemporary American culture, writes little about his religious philosophy, he is man at peace with himself and his God and he is able to convey that without talking directly about his theology. He expresses appreciation for his heritage of the family farm which has become his, and for his early teacher who taught him to see the wonders of the natural life which was found on that farm and in that area of Ohio. The life of a farmer is one of seasonal cycles which dictates the work, and the habits of the creatures of the wild. The book is roughly cyclical in scope, but has no straightforward time line. Kline writes as though engaging in easy conversation, reminiscing about berry-picking and manure-spreading, bird-watching and gardening. His life is an out-of-doors life, but he does not complain about the weather! Bad weather seems to be a time to read, and he cites authors from Kathleen Norris to A. Leopold, evidence that he is as much at home with the written word as with the topography of his farm Kline's little book makes me want to know more about him, to know how he relates to the strange and stressed humans with whom he shares this land. The book is as much spirtitual as scientific in content, bringing a sense of peace in a too-busy world. One waits for another from this delightful author.

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Excellent story for all ages

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Excellent story for all ages.......2002-05-02

Reading this book, I felt like I was transformed back to my childhood. It is very well written and flows easily. It was interesting in that it was based during the "welsh" pony boom. It is also a very "clean" book, so I recommend it for all adults as well as children interested in ponies.

The Man Who Created Paradise: A Fable (Ohio Bicentennial)

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A jewel
Tasty but tiny!
One Empire's Spoils Is Another's Paradise of Spirit

The Man Who Created Paradise: A Fable (Ohio Bicentennial)
Gene Logsdon
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Gene Logsdon’s The Man Who Created Paradise is a message of hope at a time when the sustainability of the earth appears to many to be hopeless. The fable, inspired by a true story, tells how young Wally Spero looked at one of the bleakest places in America—the strip-mined spoil banks of southeastern Ohio—and saw in it his escape from the drudgery of his factory job. He bought an old bulldozer and used the machine to carve patiently, acre by acre, a beautiful little farm out of a seemingly worthless wasteland. This charming story is the purest distillation yet of what Gene Logsdon has been writing as a journalist and author through the course of some twenty books of nonfiction and hundreds of magazine articles. Environmental restoration is the task of our time. The work of healing our land begins in our own backyards and farms, in our neighborhoods and our regions. Humans can turn the earth into a veritable paradise—if they really want to. Noted photographer Gregory Spaid retraced the trail that Logsdon traveled when he was inspired to write The Man Who Created Paradise. His photographs evoke the same soulful yearning for wholeness, for ties to land and community, that infuses the fable’s hopeful, poetic prose. Seldom have words and images complemented each other so well.

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A jewel.......2004-10-26

This is such a small little book to have inspired me so much.

Logsdon writes even better than is usual for him. You can almost feel his own sickness as he surveys the disemboweled hills and sallow culture of a strip-ming community - smell the richness of earth and pasture as he turns down a gravel drive - and feel hope sprout where death had come.

The photos are perfect. The parable is immensely moving. Is it all true? I don't know, but it ought to be. It moved me to make it true in my little corner of paradise lost

Tasty but tiny!.......2004-01-08

Mr. Logsdon's book is an easy, inspiring read. It left me yearning for a simpler life... and a thicker book! Stocked with full-page photos, the book consumes all of 15 minutes to read its 36 pages of text. I can highly recommend his books, but with this one, I felt it was over too quickly.

One Empire's Spoils Is Another's Paradise of Spirit.......2001-11-11

Gene, I can't wait to meet you. And seriously, I'd better not wait any longer. I've known the country you describe. Comforting.

"Paradise" is no fable of spirit. It is inspirational and healing. No doubt you have met my father or at least aspects of a Walter, born in '26, tied to the farm no matter his circumstances. He farmed with a dozer and rather well at times. I write you here to tell the reclaimation of spirit and family. At 75 now he has built his planting 'rig' and is on top of the world with satisfaction.

We've always got along fantastic, he and I, but apart; deeply apart. I am determined now, to learn that dozer, that crane, that rig, to make a paradise from paradise lost. Hear the walls fall, the walls I put up, the walls I push away with his "Alice".

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Gene Logsdon's story embodies both the frustrations and longing so many of us feel as we search for our essential selves and a harmonious life. The measure of his courage -- and contrariness -- is that he has been successful. In You Can Go Home Again, he tells us what motivated him and what success has meant.

For Logsdon, to create a "home" is not to escape from the world, but to establish a nexus of people, all working together to produce a home-based economy as a bulwark of stability under the larger economy gone crazy with paper money. "Home" is a local community tied to other local communities. But mostly Logsdon's philosophy must be read between the lines. What he writes about are the sad, funny, and sometimes harrowing adventures of those who live seemingly humdrum lives: understanding creeks; shepherding sheep; coping with blizzards; winning softball tournaments; losing sanity at rock concerts; hiding in haystacks; enjoying Christmas; surviving a buggy ride; overcoming grief, not to mention absentminded professors, dictatorial editors, and fervid priests; and why it might not be a bad idea to go to church in our underwear. What transpires is an inspiring picture of a very American life.

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Makes me homesick but not a how to. The how to is up to you........2006-08-29

This book is about the idea that we can go back to a slow, sane and thoughtful way of life. The story is autobiographical and describes the life of the author in a rural area of north western Ohio. He leaves home to train for the priesthood but decides that he isn't cut out for it. He goes home for a while, goes to college, gets married, moves to Philly to write for Farm Journal, sells a book and moves onto a small farm near his folks' old place. He's been there ever since.

The book is peppered with stories about life of small town people and farmers. He also writes about how economic interests in this country have made some ways of life very touch and go. It was very familiar to me because that is where I grew up. Logsdon writes about the 1978 blizzard, an event of note that is still spoken of around there. The great strength of this book can be brought out in this particular story. Mr. Logsdon recounts how he, his family and his neighbors made it through a storm that had shut the electricity for several days and the temperature plunged down well below zero. The people that were the best off were his elderly neighbors that heated with wood and made their food on a cook stove. Much of what is in this book is about having an independent spirit and thinking for your self about what makes sense and not what the supposed experts say. Going home is portrayed both literally and metaphorically. Our real home is the simple and wise way of life that considers how we can live in this world with destroying it. Home is where you can make it.

My one complaint of this book is that there are some issues with living in rural areas that the author doesn't write about. Like all places there are social issues. A person that wants to move into a rural area and has no experience in these sorts of places should spend a little time vacationing in their perspective home and talking to the people there.

I grew up and my parents still live in Forest, Ohio that is mentioned in this book. An earlier reveiwer mentioned about rural land being expensive. That's true if you are buying rural land in California, Vermont or Washington. In Northwestern, Ohio you can get farm land for $5000 an acre or less depending on the ground itself. An average house in the towns that are written about in this book go for less than $100,000.

The Contrary's Farmer Autobiography.......2003-04-02

Gene Logsdon has published his autobiography. Telling the story of his life - from farm boy to the Roman Catholic seminary, studying for the priesthood, dropping out, graduate school, and editor of a farm magazine and finally back to Ohio - he describes how his life comes to a circle. He returned to the good life of his childhood - at least almost. As a witness of the great change in agriculture, he feels a little bit like the last of the dinosaurs, one of the last generation who grew up on a traditional farm before agrobusiness destroyed the culture of rural America. Logdson does not present great programmes, but he has rather chosen to change his life by living an alternative life and work for in his home area for a resurgence of rural America. With his writings he nevertheless exercised a great influence. If you have enjoyed any of Logsdon's books, are interested into rural living and agrarian thought, this book is definitely worthwile reading.

We're doing it -- Coming home.......2000-02-24

I *am* going home again. After nearly 20 years in Texas, my family is moving back to Ohio. We feel that call that Gene Logsdon describes so movingly, hilariously. Now, most people, considering the fact that we are doing it by going first and finding jobs later, think we are certifiable. How wonderful to read Gene's work and find encouragement in values that go beyond acquisition and comfort. We're college [over]educated and employable, and jobs are the least of our worries.

Gene's book talks about home, care, a sense of place. When a place where eleven generations have called home calls you back, you have to listen, and that's why we're going. We have a "10-year plan" -- we're lucky enough to be starting out on some acreage on my Dad's farm. And will build from there. My child and my brother's children will be able to cross the pasture to visit each other and their grandparents.

Will we be self-sufficient? Of course not. What does that mean anyway? People are too "self-sufficient" as it is. I want to live someplace where I can depend on people (in all the right senses of the word). We'll grow some vegetables and berries, raise some chickens and have a good time doing it. I dream grandiosely of a cow or maybe three goats (I want to name them Gina, Lola and Brigitta, but my husband is pushing for "Shot Clock I, II, & III" [he spends a lot of time statting basketball games!]) I pour over Lehman's catalogues. It's fun to plan.

I think that's where reviewer "trailboss" below misses Gene's point. I've read everything of Gene's that I can lay my hands on (too much is out of print! ), and one point he repeatedly emphasizes is that this is not about subsistence farming. There's more than "survival" to it or it wouldn't be worth last week's supermarket strawberries.

Gene never claims that you can find Total Peace, Contentment and Happiness and on a homestead. If you don't have some of that before you start, then disappointment is inevitable.

Going home is about place, people, and good dirt. That's the saving grace of it. Not making a "profit" on it, not becoming Organically Pure, or worshipping Gaia. Of course, you can do all those things, but the home and the dirt is the start of it.

And the softball. Former high school first-base ace here! Since we're moving to southern Richland County, Ohio, I hope we get to meet Gene and the boys in a softball tournament somewhere, sometime! In the meantime, Gene, keep pestering your publishers about reprints. :)

Uncommonly gutsy and intimate.......2000-01-17

I just finished the book.

Reading the other reviews, one gets the feeling that they were reading different books. It reminds me of the Indian folktale of the four blind men and the elephant. Actually, I like the Persian version better: where three men encounter the elephant on a very dark night. The fourth man brings a candle. Ultimately, the Persian story is a story of redemption and salvation. And so is You Can Go Home.

This book is likely to cause discomfort to those have a very high need for order. Sometimes we (the Hecksel's) have guests on short notice. When that happens, we make the house suitable for company by taking all the clutter-of-life and pitching it into one of the bedrooms...the one with the lock, of course. Gene's book is a personal guided tour of that room. Great fun for those who love stories and antiques. Pain for those who crave a completely deterministic approach to life.

Gene is gutsy because he talks about religion. Gene is doubly gutsy for talking about money. Americans are funny people. We will tell total strangers of our sexual conquests before ordering our second drink, but not tell our CPA the true extent of our wealth & earnings. Go figure.

We are rich in proportion to what we do not need.

romantic but unrealistic notion.......1999-07-06

Mr. Logsdon's book, although, "nice" and romantic as a read is flawed in it's premise that somehow, despite sky rocketing real estate costs for rural land, etc. that we can somehow go back to the land and earn a living. It seems that Mr. Logsdon's need to write to support himself and his wife belies the very notion he argues. Having tried, myself, to find land at a reasonable cost, having been launched a number of years ago by this author and others of the same bent, I found nothing but frustration and disappointment.

Mr. Logsdon would leave one to believe that all large scale farmers are without brains and that they choose to ignore the profits of small scale farming. Instead, I believe that Mr. Logsdon has closed his eyes to the hard realities that land values require large scale farming and that he fails to prove, other than in a romantic yearning only, that we can truly "Go Home Again". Truly, I wish it were so...unfortunately, unless you are Amish you cannot afford to.

The book leaves one with a warm feeling despite its flawed premise. The book could be shortened with less diabtribe about old villages or softball teams.

I bought the book still holding onto a waning desire to find "the way" to go home again myself only to realize that his book, likely unwittingly, provides many of the reasons why we can't go home again despite the desire to do so...and that is sad and unfortunate.

Ohio Thunder
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ZAP! One hundred million volts. Cloud to ground advancing bolts. Lyrical verse and stunning illustrations vividly bring to life the speed and drama of a summer storm on a midwestern farm. Gorgeous paintings depict blackened skies above vast stretches of farmland, long tracts of tall corn, and brightly colored barns, but also add subtext to the story, showing two farm boys and their father reacting to the sudden shift in the weather. This remarkable pairing of word and pictures conveys a sense of wonder about the natural world and makes for a picture book any child who has ever been frightened by a storm will respond to.

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Malabar Farm

Malabar Farm
Louis Bromfield
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Malabar Farm.......2000-03-25

Bromfield's Malabar Farm is more or less the sequel to Pleasant Valley. While Pleasant Valley flows like a continuous story, Malabar Farm is more disconnected, and is really a set of essays that don't attempt to be in chronological order, and are occasionally redundant. Bromfield comes across here as more arrogant about his approach to farming, however, there is still a good deal of interesting material, and if you've read Pleasant Valley and liked it, you will appreciate finding out what happened over the next few years. By this time, they had given up on being a general purpose farm, and had become specialized as a grass farm focused on both beef and dairy cattle. He spends quite a while rationalizing this, and indeed, I found his discussion of this insightful as it represents the beginning of the development of the large, specialized farms of today. He presents the argument both economically and technologically. Also, this book talks more about mechanization which is featured only a bit in Pleasant Valley. Summary: not as good as Pleasant Valley, but if you read and enjoyed Pleasant Valley you will want to read this too. This book could be read independently of Pleasant Valley but will make a lot more sense if you have read that first.

Why Cows Learn Dutch: And Other Secrets Of The Amish Farm

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Catchy title, but disappointing
A heart-warming read

Why Cows Learn Dutch: And Other Secrets Of The Amish Farm
Randy James
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Catchy title, but disappointing.......2006-08-14

This book was a major disappointment. Despite several interesting vignettes, the book reads more like a textbook than a book about the Amish.
The author is a Geauga County (Ohio) agriculture official and goes into great detail about planting seeds; plowing; farming methods; startup costs; and, profits. You hardly get anything on the Amish themselves. However, he does tell you what they served him for dinner when he helped out around their farms. Rivetting stuff!
If you're looking for something about Amish life, this isn't the book for you. But, if you're interested in farming, you may find this book helpful.
By the way, the author never does tell you why cows learn Dutch.

A heart-warming read.......2005-08-04

"Why Cows Learn Dutch and Other Secrets of Amish Farms" was written by Randy James, a Geauga County extension agent who works among the Amish people there. He tells true stories of his interaction with Amish farmers, changing only the names to preserve their anonymity. The illustrations, including the cover art, were done by Crist C. Miller, an Amish man who lives in Geauga County.

James's lament throughout the book is "How can I possibly help these people who seem bent on living in the past?" How can they continue to do everything the old way when so much modern technology is available to help them out? He never asks why they live as they do; he respects their ways and in fact finds them fascinating, calling their farms "focused yet flexible, vertically integrated firms."

We get to go along with the congenial author on his adventures among the Amish as he directs a team of horses in plowing a field, helps make maple syrup on one farm and milks cows at another. He explains their farming methods, how their often old-fashioned machinery works and what role animals play.

The Amish world is not idyllic, as a lot of tourists think. There is a definite toll on the body and the pocketbook because they can't use most modern equipment. Their economy is dependent on the rules the community chooses to live by. For example, because many Amish communities allow no refrigeration, their milk is only grade B and sells for less money, even though it requires the same amount of work and the same rules of cleanliness. Other communities do allow refrigeration, and so their milk is grade A and brings in more money.

As part of his job, James figures out the costs of everything to help the farmers make decisions about their future. For one family, he discusses the economic merits of dairy vs. vegetable farming. For another, he plans an entire budget, adding up everything a young man will need in order to buy and operate a farm. "The economics are critically important," says James, "because the 'plain' farm family lifestyle the Amish so cherish is predicated on the operation of a profitable farm."

In addition, James talks about Amish society: how children are educated, how the church is structured and how the family dynamic changes when elders retire.

Farming enthusiasts will love this book, as will anyone interested in the Amish culture. It's an interesting and heart-warming read and a fascinating look into a world filled with strong but gentle people.

From my experience: The pleasures and miseries of life on a farm

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Autistic Adults at Bittersweet Farms (Haworth Series in Socio-horticulture) (Haworth Series in Socio-horticulture)

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Dated but still a good read on a unique topic

Autistic Adults at Bittersweet Farms (Haworth Series in Socio-horticulture) (Haworth Series in Socio-horticulture)
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Dated but still a good read on a unique topic.......2007-07-18

Good coverage of everything from the lack of residential options for adults with autism, to the reasons a farm residence could be a good option for some people. I thought it might be less relevant because of its age but that did not turn out to be the case, particularly given the dearth of books on this topic.

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