by Herrick Kimball
136 pp.
It’s only been a year or so that Christian agrarians began to keep weblogs, and none has had a more immediate or more lasting impact than Herrick Kimball’s weblog The Deliberate Agrarian. Out of the gate he blessed his readers with long, thoughtful posts on agrarianism, modernism, industrial food, boys working together, picking strawberries in the early morning, making hay, growing garlic, plucking chickens, feeling bee energy, the perils of debt, contentment, the family economy, and much more. Herrick’s writing is not only clear and informative, but often evocative as it lingers lovingly on this or that joyful aspect of rural living.
Herrick has done us the favor of gathering together many of the best essays from his weblog into a new book, Writings of a Deliberate Agrarian. For a close-up look at the thinking that leads Herrick to create homemade chicken pluckers and chicken scalders and wonderful garlic powder, this collection of essays is just the thing. Part memoir, part declaration, this book puts a face and voice to Christian agrarianism, casting a vision of the good life that will edify and inspire the reader. The journey to the good life comes with responsibilities and duties, but it comes with joys as well, many of them undeserved. Herrick Kimball writes honestly and directly about these things, and we think you will be blessed by what he has written.
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