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Tom Rivers introduces readers to the rigors of farm labor and some of the people who do the grueling work. Rivers, a reporter for The Daily News of Batavia, N.Y., spent a year working a dozen different jobs on various Western New York farms-- picking apples, harvesting cabbage, prepping dairy cows for the show ring, and more.
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Farm hands: hard work and hard lessons from Western New York fields
2010, Hodgins Printing
in English
0984565604 9780984565603
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Missing the big story
Finding a host farm and my former physique
Planting onions requires fast fingers and strong back
Juggling many chores as a night-time milker
Seeking a sweet reward : the hunt for cherries
Picking berries is picky, prickly, hot, sweaty work
Showing animals calls for attention to details
Succeeding in the show ring
Mixing it up with organic veggie variety
Skipping the middle man : fresh food, straight to customers
Cutting cabbage proves hardest harvest yet
Scrambling to catch up in the cuke rows
Learning from a public market pro : "don't be stingy"
Picking plump pumpkins is no treat
Eating humble pie in the orchard
Joining the Jamaicans for a day of apple-picking excellence
Hurrying to keep pace (and failing) with the Haitians
Testing farm-built endurance on the marathon trail
Seeing citizenship : dream for many, fulfillment for few
"Paying a price."
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"Adapted with permission from The Daily News in Batavia, N.Y."--Title page verso.
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