Description
In the tradition of Thoreau’s Walden, William Paul Winchester gives a chronicle of on a regular basis life on Southwind, his farm of twenty acres. As a subsistence farmer, he builds his own area and barn, places in a garden and an orchard, acquires a milk cow, and takes up beekeeping. In these pages, we hear his thoughts on such subjects as the elements, seasonal adjustments, machinery repair, the natural world of the region, and vegetarian cooking. His philosophy, like his way of life, is discreet, yet profoundly sensible.