Rural Minnesota Books | Summaries & Audio

The Lies of the Land

by Steven Conn • 2023

Farmers and crisis don't define rural America. Military bases, chains, and suburbia do.

3.98

148

🌾 Rural America 📜 Agrarian Myths ⏳ Nostalgia Politics

The Lies of the Land 89%

Farmers and crisis don't define rural America. Military bases, chains, and suburbia do.

by Steven Conn 2023

3.98

148 ratings

🌾 Rural America 📜 Agrarian Myths ⏳ Nostalgia Politics

The Left Behind

by Robert Wuthnow • 2018

Rural America's anger is grief: not for lost jobs, but for communities where belonging meant duty.

3.58

650

🏡 Rural America 😤 Cultural Resentment 🏙️ Urban Rural Divide

The Left Behind 88%

Rural America's anger is grief: not for lost jobs, but for communities where belonging meant duty.

by Robert Wuthnow 2018

3.58

650 ratings

🏡 Rural America 😤 Cultural Resentment 🏙️ Urban Rural Divide

The Unsettling of America

by Wendell Berry • 1977

America's farming crisis is really a crisis of character. The soil tells the story.

4.33

7k+

🧑‍🌾 Agrarian Philosophy 🌍 Land Ethics 🚜 Farming Criticism

The Unsettling of America 87%

America's farming crisis is really a crisis of character. The soil tells the story.

by Wendell Berry 1977

4.33

7k+ ratings

🧑‍🌾 Agrarian Philosophy 🌍 Land Ethics 🚜 Farming Criticism

Apostle's Cove

by William Kent Krueger • 2025

An aging sheriff learns the Ojibwe man he imprisoned for murder decades ago may be innocent.

4.14

14k+

🏘️ Small Town Mystery 📁 Cold Case Murder ⚖️ Wrongful Conviction

Apostle's Cove 87%

An aging sheriff learns the Ojibwe man he imprisoned for murder decades ago may be innocent.

by William Kent Krueger 2025

4.14

14k+ ratings

🏘️ Small Town Mystery 📁 Cold Case Murder ⚖️ Wrongful Conviction

The Life We Bury

by Allen Eskens • 2014

A college student races to prove a dying veteran's innocence before cancer closes the case forever.

4.09

212k+

🕵️ Amateur Sleuth 📁 Cold Case Mystery ⚖️ Wrongful Conviction

The Life We Bury 87%

A college student races to prove a dying veteran's innocence before cancer closes the case forever.

by Allen Eskens 2014

4.09

212k+ ratings

🕵️ Amateur Sleuth 📁 Cold Case Mystery ⚖️ Wrongful Conviction

The Lost Continent

by Bill Bryson • 1989

He drove across America looking for the perfect small town. He mostly found parking lots.

3.81

65k+

🚗 American Road Trips 🏘️ Small-Town Life 🇺🇸 American Nostalgia

The Lost Continent 87%

He drove across America looking for the perfect small town. He mostly found parking lots.

by Bill Bryson 1989

3.81

65k+ ratings

🚗 American Road Trips 🏘️ Small-Town Life 🇺🇸 American Nostalgia

Rural Versus Urban

by Suzanne Mettler • 2025

The real divide isn't ideology: it's rural versus urban, and it's endangering American democracy.

4.33

🌾 Rural Politics 🏙️ Urban-Rural Divide 💔 Affective Polarization

Rural Versus Urban 86%

The real divide isn't ideology: it's rural versus urban, and it's endangering American democracy.

by Suzanne Mettler 2025

4.33

54 ratings

🌾 Rural Politics 🏙️ Urban-Rural Divide 💔 Affective Polarization

Love Thy Neighbor

by Ayaz Virji • 2019

His patients voted for Trump. Then they learned their doctor was Muslim.

4.14

2k+

🏡 Rural America 🤝 Interfaith Dialogue 😔 Islamophobia

Love Thy Neighbor 86%

His patients voted for Trump. Then they learned their doctor was Muslim.

by Ayaz Virji 2019

4.14

2k+ ratings

🏡 Rural America 🤝 Interfaith Dialogue 😔 Islamophobia

The Last American Road Trip

by Sarah Kendzior • 2025

Route 66 promised reinvention. One family drives its ruins to find what's left of America.

3.84

2k+

🗺️ Middle America 🛣️ Family Road Trips 🏛️ Political Corruption

The Last American Road Trip 86%

Route 66 promised reinvention. One family drives its ruins to find what's left of America.

by Sarah Kendzior 2025

3.84

2k+ ratings

🗺️ Middle America 🛣️ Family Road Trips 🏛️ Political Corruption

The Politics of Resentment

by Katherine J. Cramer • 2016

Resentment toward cities and public employees, not ideology, drives rural small-government votes.

4.01

1k+

🌾 Rural Politics 🛣️ Urban Rural Divide 📋 Ethnography

The Politics of Resentment 86%

Resentment toward cities and public employees, not ideology, drives rural small-government votes.

by Katherine J. Cramer 2016

4.01

1k+ ratings

🌾 Rural Politics 🛣️ Urban Rural Divide 📋 Ethnography

The Other Side of the Bridge

by Mary Lawson • 2006

Two brothers on a northern Ontario farm love the same woman. One leaves; the other stays.

4.18

12k+

🏘️ Small Town Saga ⚔️ Sibling Rivalry 🕯️ Generational Guilt

The Other Side of the Bridge 86%

Two brothers on a northern Ontario farm love the same woman. One leaves; the other stays.

by Mary Lawson 2006

4.18

12k+ ratings

🏘️ Small Town Saga ⚔️ Sibling Rivalry 🕯️ Generational Guilt

Early Morning Riser

by Katherine Heiny • 2021

A teacher falls for a small-town handyman whose romantic past is the whole town.

3.57

32k+

🏘️ Small Town Life 🫂 Found Family 📋 Slice Of Life

Early Morning Riser 86%

A teacher falls for a small-town handyman whose romantic past is the whole town.

by Katherine Heiny 2021

3.57

32k+ ratings

🏘️ Small Town Life 🫂 Found Family 📋 Slice Of Life

Paper Girl

by Beth Macy • 2025

A Pell Grant was her exit from working-class Ohio. Four decades later, the road is closed.

4.02

11k+

🏡 Rural America 👷 Working-Class Memoir 🏭 Post-Industrial Decline

Paper Girl 86%

A Pell Grant was her exit from working-class Ohio. Four decades later, the road is closed.

by Beth Macy 2025

4.02

11k+ ratings

🏡 Rural America 👷 Working-Class Memoir 🏭 Post-Industrial Decline

Soil and Sacrament

by Fred Bahnson • 2013

What if the holiest ground you'll ever touch is in a garden?

4.17

264

🛐 Faith And Farming 🌻 Community Gardens 🙏 Agrarian Spirituality

Soil and Sacrament 86%

What if the holiest ground you'll ever touch is in a garden?

by Fred Bahnson 2013

4.17

264 ratings

🛐 Faith And Farming 🌻 Community Gardens 🙏 Agrarian Spirituality

Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal

by Joel Salatin • 2007

Government says raw milk and teenage farmhands are crimes. One sustainable farmer's legal war.

4.20

2k+

🧑‍🌾 Sustainable Agriculture 🏘️ Local Food Systems 🏭 Factory Farming Critique

Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal Summary

Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal 86%

Government says raw milk and teenage farmhands are crimes. One sustainable farmer's legal war.

by Joel Salatin 2007

4.20

2k+ ratings

🧑‍🌾 Sustainable Agriculture 🏘️ Local Food Systems 🏭 Factory Farming Critique

One Man's Wilderness

by Sam Keith • 1973

At fifty-one he walked into the Alaskan wilderness, built a cabin by hand, and began again.

4.37

10k+

🏔️ Wilderness Memoir 🔨 Self-Reliance 🐻 Animal Encounters

One Man's Wilderness 86%

At fifty-one he walked into the Alaskan wilderness, built a cabin by hand, and began again.

by Sam Keith 1973

4.37

10k+ ratings

🏔️ Wilderness Memoir 🔨 Self-Reliance 🐻 Animal Encounters

A Childhood

by Harry Crews • 1978

By age six he had lived a lifetime. The writing was just aftermath.

4.34

3k+

🏚️ Rural Poverty 🌾 Southern Memoir 🩸 Childhood Trauma

A Childhood 86%

By age six he had lived a lifetime. The writing was just aftermath.

by Harry Crews 1978

4.34

3k+ ratings

🏚️ Rural Poverty 🌾 Southern Memoir 🩸 Childhood Trauma

Under a Flaming Sky

by Daniel James Brown • 2006

When a firestorm struck Hinckley in 1894, survival hinged on two trains racing through flame.

4.13

5k+

📖 Narrative Nonfiction 🔥 Wildfire History 🤝 Community Resilience

Under a Flaming Sky 86%

When a firestorm struck Hinckley in 1894, survival hinged on two trains racing through flame.

by Daniel James Brown 2006

4.13

5k+ ratings

📖 Narrative Nonfiction 🔥 Wildfire History 🤝 Community Resilience

Scouting the Divine

by Margaret Feinberg • 2009

Sheep, vines, honey, wool: one writer's search for the God the Bible's first readers knew.

4.22

912

🐑 Spiritual Memoir 🌾 Faith And Farming 🤲 Experiential Faith

Scouting the Divine 86%

Sheep, vines, honey, wool: one writer's search for the God the Bible's first readers knew.

by Margaret Feinberg 2009

4.22

912 ratings

🐑 Spiritual Memoir 🌾 Faith And Farming 🤲 Experiential Faith

Lila

by Marilynne Robinson • 2014

A stolen child, a wary drifter, walks into an Iowa church and a widowed preacher's life.

3.95

36k+

🕊️ Theological Fiction 🌾 Midwestern Gothic 💛 Found Family

Lila 86%

A stolen child, a wary drifter, walks into an Iowa church and a widowed preacher's life.

by Marilynne Robinson 2014

3.95

36k+ ratings

🕊️ Theological Fiction 🌾 Midwestern Gothic 💛 Found Family

Pastoral Song

by James Rebanks • 2020

The old ways fed birdsong and bellies. A farmer's argument for mending what cheap food broke.

4.42

8k+

🌱 Regenerative Agriculture 🚜 Traditional Farming 🪱 Soil Health

Pastoral Song 86%

The old ways fed birdsong and bellies. A farmer's argument for mending what cheap food broke.

by James Rebanks 2020

4.42

8k+ ratings

🌱 Regenerative Agriculture 🚜 Traditional Farming 🪱 Soil Health

The William Kent Krueger Collection #1

by William Kent Krueger • 2012

In Aurora, Minnesota, an ex-sheriff's last chance begins with a missing boy and a dead judge.

4.30

1k+

🖤 Small Town Noir 🌲 Wilderness Suspense 🪶 Indigenous Mythology

The William Kent Krueger Collection #1 Summary

The William Kent Krueger Collection #1 86%

In Aurora, Minnesota, an ex-sheriff's last chance begins with a missing boy and a dead judge.

by William Kent Krueger 2012

4.30

1k+ ratings

🖤 Small Town Noir 🌲 Wilderness Suspense 🪶 Indigenous Mythology

A Good Animal

by Sara Maurer • 2026

First love on a Michigan sheep farm ends in a pregnancy with no safe way out.

3.56

8k+

🏡 Rural Coming Of Age 🐏 Sheep Farming 💔 First Love

A Good Animal 85%

First love on a Michigan sheep farm ends in a pregnancy with no safe way out.

by Sara Maurer 2026

3.56

8k+ ratings

🏡 Rural Coming Of Age 🐏 Sheep Farming 💔 First Love

Harvest the Vote

by Jane Kleeb • 2020

Democrats lost rural America by walking away. A Nebraska organizer shows how to win it back.

3.82

214

🏘️ Rural Politics ✊ Grassroots Organizing 🏢 Corporate Power

Harvest the Vote 85%

Democrats lost rural America by walking away. A Nebraska organizer shows how to win it back.

by Jane Kleeb 2020

3.82

214 ratings

🏘️ Rural Politics ✊ Grassroots Organizing 🏢 Corporate Power

The Feast Nearby

by Robin Mather • 2011

Job gone, marriage over: one woman, $40 a week, a year of eating what grew nearby.

3.79

2k+

🥬 Seasonal Eating 🧑‍🌾 Local Food Systems 🍳 Culinary Memoir

The Feast Nearby 85%

Job gone, marriage over: one woman, $40 a week, a year of eating what grew nearby.

by Robin Mather 2011

3.79

2k+ ratings

🥬 Seasonal Eating 🧑‍🌾 Local Food Systems 🍳 Culinary Memoir

One Bird's Choice

by Iain Reid • 2010

Back on his parents' farm: broke, overeducated, and outranked by a guinea fowl.

3.74

461

🔙 Boomerang Kids 🐓 Farm Life 🙃 Self-Deprecating Humor

One Bird's Choice 85%

Back on his parents' farm: broke, overeducated, and outranked by a guinea fowl.

by Iain Reid 2010

3.74

461 ratings

🔙 Boomerang Kids 🐓 Farm Life 🙃 Self-Deprecating Humor

Us Against You

by Fredrik Backman • 2017

After a rape scandal, Beartown's only hope lies with a female coach and her outcast team.

4.37

266k+

🏘️ Small Town Drama 🇸🇪 Scandinavian Fiction 🔥 Tribalism

Us Against You 85%

After a rape scandal, Beartown's only hope lies with a female coach and her outcast team.

by Fredrik Backman 2017

4.37

266k+ ratings

🏘️ Small Town Drama 🇸🇪 Scandinavian Fiction 🔥 Tribalism

The Profitable Hobby Farm

by Sarah Beth Aubrey • 2010

Your hobby farm can earn real money. The business blueprint for making local food pay.

3.71

157

🚜 Small Farm Business 🥕 Local Food Movement 🌱 Sustainable Agriculture

The Profitable Hobby Farm 85%

Your hobby farm can earn real money. The business blueprint for making local food pay.

by Sarah Beth Aubrey 2010

3.71

157 ratings

🚜 Small Farm Business 🥕 Local Food Movement 🌱 Sustainable Agriculture

The Winners

by Fredrik Backman • 2021

A small hockey town braces for a storm that unearths its buried secrets and oldest wounds.

4.45

170k+

🏘️ Small Town Drama 🏒 Literary Sports 🎭 Ensemble Cast

The Winners 85%

A small hockey town braces for a storm that unearths its buried secrets and oldest wounds.

by Fredrik Backman 2021

4.45

170k+ ratings

🏘️ Small Town Drama 🏒 Literary Sports 🎭 Ensemble Cast

Heaven Is a Place on Earth

by Adrian Shirk • 2022

Utopia is a practice, not a place. Three centuries of Americans building communities from scratch.

3.93

215

🗺️ Memoir Of Place 🛖 Intentional Communities 🗽 American Utopianism

Heaven Is a Place on Earth 85%

Utopia is a practice, not a place. Three centuries of Americans building communities from scratch.

by Adrian Shirk 2022

3.93

215 ratings

🗺️ Memoir Of Place 🛖 Intentional Communities 🗽 American Utopianism

Folks, This Ain't Normal

by Joel Salatin • 2011

Food that travels 1,500 miles, animals that never graze, costs hidden: a farmer's case for normal.

4.21

5k+

🌱 Sustainable Agriculture 🏘️ Local Food Systems 🌍 Soil Regeneration

Folks, This Ain't Normal 85%

Food that travels 1,500 miles, animals that never graze, costs hidden: a farmer's case for normal.

by Joel Salatin 2011

4.21

5k+ ratings

🌱 Sustainable Agriculture 🏘️ Local Food Systems 🌍 Soil Regeneration

BOOM

by Tony Horwitz • 2014

From oil sands to Gulf Coast: a pipeline route where roughnecks, strippers, and ranchers collide.

3.89

713

🛢️ Energy Politics 🏭 Oil Industry 📰 Narrative Journalism

BOOM 85%

From oil sands to Gulf Coast: a pipeline route where roughnecks, strippers, and ranchers collide.

by Tony Horwitz 2014

3.89

713 ratings

🛢️ Energy Politics 🏭 Oil Industry 📰 Narrative Journalism

River Town

by Peter Hessler • 2001

Fuling: no Americans in 50 years. Hessler arrived a teacher, and became Ho Wei.

4.28

14k+

🌾 Rural China 📍 Memoir Of Place 🗣️ Language Immersion

River Town 85%

Fuling: no Americans in 50 years. Hessler arrived a teacher, and became Ho Wei.

by Peter Hessler 2001

4.28

14k+ ratings

🌾 Rural China 📍 Memoir Of Place 🗣️ Language Immersion

Ordinary Grace

by William Kent Krueger • 2013

When his sister vanishes, a minister's son discovers his Minnesota town is built on secrets.

4.27

198k+

🏘️ Small Town Mystery 📖 Literary Coming Of Age ⛪ Minister'S Family

Ordinary Grace 85%

When his sister vanishes, a minister's son discovers his Minnesota town is built on secrets.

by William Kent Krueger 2013

4.27

198k+ ratings

🏘️ Small Town Mystery 📖 Literary Coming Of Age ⛪ Minister'S Family

Meet the Frugalwoods

by Elizabeth Willard Thames • 2018

An 82 percent savings rate: how two professionals quit their jobs and bought a Vermont homestead.

3.74

7k+

🏦 Financial Independence 💰 Frugal Living 🔥 Fire Movement

Meet the Frugalwoods 85%

An 82 percent savings rate: how two professionals quit their jobs and bought a Vermont homestead.

by Elizabeth Willard Thames 2018

3.74

7k+ ratings

🏦 Financial Independence 💰 Frugal Living 🔥 Fire Movement

The One-Straw Revolution

by Masanobu Fukuoka • 1975

A manifesto that argues plowing, weeding, and fertilizing are optional. Thirty years of proof.

4.33

9k+

🌱 Sustainable Agriculture ☮️ Zen Philosophy 🧱 Soil Health

The One-Straw Revolution 85%

A manifesto that argues plowing, weeding, and fertilizing are optional. Thirty years of proof.

by Masanobu Fukuoka 1975

4.33

9k+ ratings

🌱 Sustainable Agriculture ☮️ Zen Philosophy 🧱 Soil Health

Imagine a City

by Mark Vanhoenacker • 2022

A pilot's repeated city layovers trace one hidden route: back to the small hometown he fled.

3.65

422

🏙️ Urban Travel Writing ✈️ Aviation Memoirs 🧭 Sense Of Place

Imagine a City 85%

A pilot's repeated city layovers trace one hidden route: back to the small hometown he fled.

by Mark Vanhoenacker 2022

3.65

422 ratings

🏙️ Urban Travel Writing ✈️ Aviation Memoirs 🧭 Sense Of Place

Unspeakable Things

by Jess Lourey • 2020

Boys vanish. A girl hunts the predator. But her father's footsteps climb the stairs toward her room.

3.78

92k+

🏘️ Small Town Mystery 👧 Child Narrator 🔑 Dark Family Secrets

Unspeakable Things 85%

Boys vanish. A girl hunts the predator. But her father's footsteps climb the stairs toward her room.

by Jess Lourey 2020

3.78

92k+ ratings

🏘️ Small Town Mystery 👧 Child Narrator 🔑 Dark Family Secrets

Nature's Metropolis

by William Cronon • 1991

The grain and hogs flowing through Chicago didn't just feed the nation, they rewired the continent.

4.26

4k+

🌿 Environmental History 🗺️ Economic Geography 🏙️ Urban Systems

Nature's Metropolis 85%

The grain and hogs flowing through Chicago didn't just feed the nation, they rewired the continent.

by William Cronon 1991

4.26

4k+ ratings

🌿 Environmental History 🗺️ Economic Geography 🏙️ Urban Systems

The Sunset Route

by Carrot Quinn • 2021

A young woman rides freight trains west to escape a broken past, searching for a new kind of family.

4.16

2k+

🚂 Freight Train Culture 🏡 Off-Grid Living 🎒 Nomadic Lifestyles

The Sunset Route 85%

A young woman rides freight trains west to escape a broken past, searching for a new kind of family.

by Carrot Quinn 2021

4.16

2k+ ratings

🚂 Freight Train Culture 🏡 Off-Grid Living 🎒 Nomadic Lifestyles

Arctic Homestead

by Norma Cobb • 2000

A blended family claims an Arctic homestead: no road, no laws, and winter closing in.

4.06

2k+

🏡 Homesteading Memoir 🏔️ Alaskan Wilderness 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Frontier Family

Arctic Homestead 85%

A blended family claims an Arctic homestead: no road, no laws, and winter closing in.

by Norma Cobb 2000

4.06

2k+ ratings

🏡 Homesteading Memoir 🏔️ Alaskan Wilderness 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Frontier Family

The Growing Season

by Sarah Frey • 2020

From a melon route at seven, she built the farm empire that stocks Walmart's shelves.

4.13

2k+

🧺 Family Farm Business ✨ Rags-To-Riches 👩‍🌾 Women In Agriculture

The Growing Season 85%

From a melon route at seven, she built the farm empire that stocks Walmart's shelves.

by Sarah Frey 2020

4.13

2k+ ratings

🧺 Family Farm Business ✨ Rags-To-Riches 👩‍🌾 Women In Agriculture

We Know You Remember

by Tove Alsterdal • 2021

A dead father forces a cop to reopen the murder confession that silenced her Swedish valley.

3.64

8k+

❄️ Scandinavian Noir 🏘️ Small-Town Crime ⚖️ Coerced Confession

We Know You Remember 85%

A dead father forces a cop to reopen the murder confession that silenced her Swedish valley.

by Tove Alsterdal 2021

3.64

8k+ ratings

❄️ Scandinavian Noir 🏘️ Small-Town Crime ⚖️ Coerced Confession

Beartown

by Fredrik Backman • 2016

When a Swedish hockey town's star player assaults a girl, loyalty and justice collide.

4.29

618k+

🎭 Small Town Drama 🏒 Sports Drama 🤫 Small Town Secrets

Beartown 85%

When a Swedish hockey town's star player assaults a girl, loyalty and justice collide.

by Fredrik Backman 2016

4.29

618k+ ratings

🎭 Small Town Drama 🏒 Sports Drama 🤫 Small Town Secrets

Blaze Me a Sun

by Christoffer Carlsson • 2021

A Swedish cop's thirty-year hunt for a serial killer becomes his son's inheritance and his prison.

3.92

5k+

❄️ Nordic Noir 🔍 Cold Case Mystery 🩸 Serial Killer

Blaze Me a Sun 85%

A Swedish cop's thirty-year hunt for a serial killer becomes his son's inheritance and his prison.

by Christoffer Carlsson 2021

3.92

5k+ ratings

❄️ Nordic Noir 🔍 Cold Case Mystery 🩸 Serial Killer

A Year of Living Simply

by Kate Humble • 2024

Owning less, fixing more, knowing your neighbors: a year of discovering what enough feels like.

3.71

2k+

🌻 Simple Living 🌿 Nature Connection 🛠 Repair And Reuse

A Year of Living Simply 85%

Owning less, fixing more, knowing your neighbors: a year of discovering what enough feels like.

by Kate Humble 2024

3.71

2k+ ratings

🌻 Simple Living 🌿 Nature Connection 🛠 Repair And Reuse

Coming Into the Country

by John McPhee • 1977

Alaska, 1970s: a pipeline bonanza and the battle over 375 million acres of the last frontier.

4.21

8k+

🏔️ Alaskan Wilderness ✍️ Literary Journalism 🪓 Bush Life

Coming Into the Country 85%

Alaska, 1970s: a pipeline bonanza and the battle over 375 million acres of the last frontier.

by John McPhee 1977

4.21

8k+ ratings

🏔️ Alaskan Wilderness ✍️ Literary Journalism 🪓 Bush Life

The Rural Diaries

by Hilarie Burton Morgan • 2020

She traded Hollywood for a log cabin, a failing candy shop, and a donkey.

4.40

24k+

🏡 Rural Memoirs 🎬 Celebrity Memoirs 💔 Grief Processing

The Rural Diaries 85%

She traded Hollywood for a log cabin, a failing candy shop, and a donkey.

by Hilarie Burton Morgan 2020

4.40

24k+ ratings

🏡 Rural Memoirs 🎬 Celebrity Memoirs 💔 Grief Processing

Crow Lake

by Mary Lawson • 2003

Orphaned in rural Ontario, a girl's bond with her brilliant brother is tested by sacrifice.

4.02

29k+

🏞️ Rural Family Saga 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Orphaned Siblings 🖤 Generational Trauma

Crow Lake 85%

Orphaned in rural Ontario, a girl's bond with her brilliant brother is tested by sacrifice.

by Mary Lawson 2003

4.02

29k+ ratings

🏞️ Rural Family Saga 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Orphaned Siblings 🖤 Generational Trauma

Home Grown

by Ben Hewitt • 2014

Two brothers learn to read by crafting bows and butchering hogs on their family's Vermont farm.

3.95

2k+

🧩 Unschooling 🌿 Nature Connection 🐢 Slow Parenting

Home Grown 85%

Two brothers learn to read by crafting bows and butchering hogs on their family's Vermont farm.

by Ben Hewitt 2014

3.95

2k+ ratings

🧩 Unschooling 🌿 Nature Connection 🐢 Slow Parenting

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