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One Small Farm: Photographs of a Wisconsin Way of Life

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“People’s lives are written on the fields of old farms. The rows of the fields are like lines on a page, blank and white in winter, filled in with each and every year’s story of happiness, disappointment, drought, rain, sun, scarcity, plenty. The chapters accumulate, and people enter and leave the narrative. Only the farm goes on.”—From the Introduction

In One Small Farm, Craig Schreiner’s evocative color photographs capture one circle of relatives as they care for the rhythms and routines of small farm life near Pine Bluff, Wisconsin. “Milk in the morning and milk at night. Feed the cows and calves. Plant crops. Grind feed. Chop and bale hay. Cut wood. Clean the barn. Spread manure on the fields. Plow snow and split wood in winter. In spring, pick rocks from the fields. Cultivate corn. Pick corn. Harvest oats and barley. Assist calves be born. Milk in the morning and milk at night.”
There’s a lot more to life on the farm than just chores, of course, and Schreiner captures the rhythms and richness of on a regular basis life on the farm in all seasons, evoking both the challenges and the joys and providing viewers a window into a world that may be quickly fading. In documenting the Lamberty circle of relatives’s day by day work and life, these thoughtful photos explore larger questions concerning the way forward for small farm agriculture, Wisconsin cultural traditions, and the rural way of living.


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