BOOK CLUB BUZZ GIVEAWAY

The Blueberry Years:
A Memoir of Farm and Family
by Jim Minick

The Blueberry Years captures the story of Jim Minick's experience creating, operating, and eventually selling one of the mid-Atlantic's first certified-organic, pick-your-own blueberry farms. For a decade, the author and his wife planted, pruned, and picked while also opening the field to hundreds of people who came to harvest berries. These pickers shared blueberry-flavored moonshine and sober religion, warm hugs and cool hats, and always bushels of stories. To give a larger context to the Minicks' story, the author includes brief chapters on national issues such as organic foods and new farmers. He also includes short interludes on all things blueberry, like the fruit's many health benefits or the blueberry in literature. Ultimately, though, this book tells the story of a young couple pursuing their blueberry dream.

"There is so much to praise in this beautifully written memoir, but what I admire most is Jim Minick's utter lack of self-righteousness. In these pages we are given a wisdom that has, at its center, a quiet and abiding humility. What a fine, fine book The Blueberry Years is."
- Ron Rash, author of Serena

"A truly inspiring story, in gorgeous prose, about one family's journey into blueberry farming. Delicious reading."
- Naomi Wolf, author of The End of America and The Beauty Myth

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The Blueberry Years

Entry Deadline: September 30, 2010

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