Chronicles of Ginger Farm: Life on a Small Canadian Farm During Times of Great Global Change, 1929-1962 - Paperback

by Gwendoline P. Clarke (Author)

This history-making book gives readers a rare look at a mostly forgotten but dramatically important reality: rural life in the twentieth century. It is a selection of Gwendoline P. Clarke's colourful, richly detailed and heart-warming newspaper columns about day-to-day life on the one hundred acres she and her husband, “Partner, ” farmed near Milton, Ontario.

• milking, calving, feeding the chickens, planting and threshing
• the rise and fall of egg and milk prices
• trips to the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto
• the vicissitudes of every weather pattern the country could throw their way
• changes in farming technology, from horse-drawn plough to oil-burning and then gas-powered tractors and from hand milking to the wonders of the milking machine
• and the slow and rare acquisition of modern conveniences, from buggy to car, oil lamps to electricity, and crackly radio to flickering black-and-white TV