{"product_id":"the-haymakers-a-chronicle-of-five-farm-families-minnesota","title":"The Haymakers: A Chronicle of Five Farm Families (Minnesota)","description":"Winner of the Minnesota Book Award and the Red River Heritage Award!\n\nThe Haymakers is an epic—the history of man's struggle with nature as well as man's struggle against machines. It relates the story of farmers and their obligations to their families, to the animals they fed, and to the land they tended. But The Haymakersis also an elegy—to a way of life fast disappearing from our landscape. In the most heartfelt essays, Hoffbeck chronicles his own family's struggle to hold onto their family farm and his personal struggle in deciding to leave farming for another way of life.\n\nHoffbeck also seeks to document and preserve the commonplace methods of haymaking, information about haying that might otherwise be lost to posterity. He describes the tools and the methods of haymaking as well as the relentless demands of the farm. Using diaries, agricultural guidebooks and personal interviews, the folkways of cutting, raking, and harvesting hay have been recorded in these chapters. In the end, this book is not so much about agricultural history as it is about family history, personal history—how farm families survive, even persevere.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0873513959\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: RDV.0873513959.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Hoffbeck, Steven R.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This book is in excellent condition. This is an ex-library book with stickers and markings. There may be minimal writing on the inside cover or cover page. Cover image on the book may vary from photo. Ships out quickly in a secure plastic mailer.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Reliant Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47452481159345,"sku":"RDV.0873513959.VG","price":6.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0544\/8872\/7729\/files\/0873513959-0.jpg?v=1781547137","url":"https:\/\/www.reliantbookstore.com\/products\/the-haymakers-a-chronicle-of-five-farm-families-minnesota","provider":"Reliant Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}