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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
From early Colonial times, the rural hilltowns of New England have been home to generations of dairy farmers. They earned their living through a remarkably varied combination of seasonal activities and incessant daily chores — maple sugaring, plowing, planting, cultivating, haying, logging, clearing fields, building stone walls, mending fences, harvesting crops, cutting, splitting and stacking firewood, breeding, doctoring, trading and slaughtering...
2) Modern Life
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
Français
Description
Photographer and filmmaker Raymond Depardon is renowned for his documentation of the French countryside. In Modern Life he casts an affectionate and irreverent eye on a small community of farmers as they are confronted by the problems and challenges the contemporary world brings. Treated with equal suspicion, strangers and women are gradually accepted into the fabric of the farming life so as to sustain a way of life that celebrates the traditions...
Publisher
Integrity Publishers
Language
English
Description
A special guest has been invited to the farm. Jenny (voice of Amy Grant) is put in charge of cleaning up and receives the cooperation of everyone...except Hercules (Vince Gill). In addition to not helping, Hercules mistakes the special guest for someone unimportant and treats him poorly. Meanwhile Sam finds $20 and spends it without finding out to whom it belongs. This episode is full of lessons including behaving well even when nobody is watching,...
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Edition
Standard format.
Language
English
Description
Baby MacDonald introduces infants and toddlers to the sunrise, the barn, the tractors, feeding the animals, and the crops in the fields. Using real-world images and delightful puppet scenes featuring a cow, pig and rooster, your little one will enjoy traditional nursery rhymes along with classical music specially re-orchestrated just for the little ears.
Publisher
Hit Entertainment
Language
English
Description
'Tis the season to be woolly, with Shaun the Sheep and his farmyard friends. Frolic with the flock as they decorate the farmhouse for the farmer, watch Bitzer and Pidsley battle for a spot by the fire, join a massive snowball fight, and much more. Episodes Include: We Wish Ewe a Merry Christmas; Snowed In; Fireside Favorite; An Ill Wind; Bitzer's New Hat; Chip off the Old Block; and Shirley Whirley. Special features include a game and song.
10) Heat Wave!
Author
Publisher
Walker and Company
Language
English
Description
A terrible heat wave descends upon a farm, turning the corn to popcorn and almost cooking the cows, but the girl of the family saves the day
16) Baby animals
Author
Publisher
F. Watts
Language
English
Description
A young girl visits a farm and sees a variety of baby animals.
18) Sweet Potato Pie
Author
Series
Publisher
Random Library
Language
English
Description
Everybody on the farm stop what they are doing to come have some of Grandma's sweet potatoe pie.
19) The yearling
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Language
English
Description
A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raisesd as a pet.
20) The Dust Bowl
Author
Series
Publisher
Compass Point Books
Language
English
Description
Discusses the causes of the Dust Bowl and the plight of farmers and their families during and after the storms.
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