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010      2009008229 
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050 00 S417.M366|bA3 2009 
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100 1  Masumoto, David Mas. 
245 10 Wisdom of the last farmer :|bharvesting legacies from the 
       land /|cDavid Mas Masumoto. 
246 30 Harvesting legacies from the land 
250    First Free Press hardcover edition. 
264  1 New York :|bFree Press,|c2009. 
300    xiii, 238 pages ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
505 0  Family heirloom -- The price of perfection -- Second sons 
       -- The last orchard -- Calling your father a weed -- 
       Living with insults -- Resilience -- Learning to lean, 
       walking on uneven ground -- Shoveling sand -- Back in the 
       saddle again -- Season of dirt -- Perfect junk -- The art 
       of going slow : French plowing -- Hardpan economics -- 
       Falling down -- Welding -- Killing an orchard to save the 
       farm -- The sweat thesis -- The hands of caregivers -- 
       Farming with ghosts -- Missing stories -- Fields of gold -
       - Places where we belong -- How many harvests left? -- 
       Coming home -- Names we wear -- Abandoning a vineyard -- 
       Preservation -- Day is done. 
520    In this memoir, the author finds the natural connections 
       between generation and succession, fathers and children, 
       booms and declines as he tells the story of his family and
       their farm. He sees the price the family has paid to grow 
       complex heirloom peaches--when the market rewards 
       tasteless, big, and red fruits--and the challenges of 
       maintaining traditions and integrity while working in the 
       modern, high-pressure agricultural marketplace. As his 
       father's health declines along with the profitability of 
       the family farm, the author moves beyond economic concerns
       to questions of life, death, and renewal. 
600 10 Masumoto, David Mas. 
650  0 Peach growers|zCalifornia|vBiography. 
650  0 Organic farmers|zCalifornia|vBiography. 
650  0 Farm life|zCalifornia. 
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