5/29/2023 0 Comments Hit by a Farm by Catherine Friend![]() ![]() ![]() Melissa, it turns out, has a powerful passion for poultry, evidenced the day that Friend misinterprets an affectionate look only to hear Melissa say dreamily, "God, I love chickens."Īn experimental grape arbor has Friend accidentally planting 200 vines upside down. ![]() They build a house and assemble a working farm of sheep, chickens, ducks and geese. In rather quick order, she and her partner, Melissa, acquire 53 acres of hilly land alongside the highway that connects Rochester to the Twin Cities. "Hit by a Farm: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Barn" is the chronicle of her transformation from Minneapolis city slicker to rural Minnesota shepherd. When her partner of a dozen years pleads to fulfill her dream of running a farm, Friend acquiesces and sets off on an adventure she doesn't see coming. She's cold, there's a suspiciously soft substance on the bottom of her sneakers and she has never really hankered to know what a healthy ram testicle feels like.īut we all do foolish things for love. Her charming memoir begins with her tentative reach between the legs of a male sheep, the better to squeeze his 16-inch circumference testicles. Catherine Friend knows how to get our attention. ![]()
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