Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey

Pastoral Songs is heart-wrenching and hopeful at the same time. The beginning of the book opens upon the author's childhood and covers how he learned the traditional way of farming from his grandfather. The midsection covers how he and his father modernized the farm after his grandfather died and how they began to regret doing so, and the last third covers how he begins to reverse the damages done. It is not a technical book or a guide to traditional farming; rather, it is a story of one man and how he relates to his fields, woods, and hills.