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!
Harvest is well under way in Iowa now. Although this
photograph comes from about 1940, canning is enjoying a resurgence along with
people’s growing interest in eating local.
Mrs. Ralph Mann, Jefferson Co., and part of
her canning. Photo taken around 1940. From A Bountiful Harvest: The Midwestern Farm Photographs of Pete Wettach, 1925-1965, edited by Leslie A. Loveless.
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