Set on a Farm or Ranch

Get back to the land with these books with a farm or ranch setting. Plant a seed, read!

Updated May 3, 2026
LINCC (Libraries in Clackamas County) Milwaukie Ledding Library
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Cold Comfort Farm
Gibbons, Stella
Paper Book
"Quite simply one of the funniest satirical novels of the last century." --Nancy Pearl, NPR's Morning Edition The deliriously entertaining Cold Comfort Farm is "very probably the funniest book ever written" (The Sunday Times, London), a...
The permaculture handbook
Bane, Peter.
Paper Book
Permanent agriculture - abundance by design "The wealth of practical knowledge in The Permaculture Handbook is a welcome addition to North America's canon of books on permaculture design, and will serve other regions as well. Peter Bane's broad and well-tested experience in ecological...
A thousand acres
Smiley, Jane.
Paper Book
A thousand acres, a piece of land of almost mythic proportions. Upon this fertile, nourishing earth, Jane Smiley has set her rich, breathtakingly dramatic novel of an American family whose wealth cannot stay the hand of tragedy. It is the intense, compelling story of a father and his daughters, of...

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