The Food and Agriculture Organization has declared 2014 the
Year of Family Farming with the aim of highlighting the important role family and small farms
play in feeding the world. To do our part, throughout 2014 we are featuring
some of our favorite images and words from Iowa books on family farms. Here’s
the latest!
“My father’s farm expresses well the essence of him. It’s
some of the state’s best land, on a flat, narrow ridge that the topographer
would represent with a southeast line between the parallel meanderings of the
Des Moines and the Skunk rivers, safe from floods and perfectly sloped for
draining rains…. He inherited its advantages, but has immaculately maintained
them, taking no risks with the way he’s used his land.”
excerpt from Prairie City, Iowa: Three Seasons at Home, by Douglas Bauer
photograph from A Bountiful Harvest: The Midwestern Farm Photographs of Pete Wettach, 1925-1965, by Leslie Loveless
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