Another Season's Promise : Hope and Despair in Canada's Farm Country by Boyens, Ingeborg - 2001

Toronto: Penguin - Viking, 2001 FINE/FINE First Edition, 1st Printing. A beautiful copy, nearly as-new, a few passages underlined but no other markings, crisp & clean, unclipped DJ. 6.25" x 9.25", 276 pages, index. As the starting point for each chapter, Boyens looks at a growing season in the life of the Wielers, a one-family farming operation in southern Manitoba. After a brief consideration of the elements that affect the day-to-day reality of the Wielers' lives, Boyens extracts the larger issues: the lessons that can be gleaned from the past; the reality of operating a small farm in a global farm industry; the elusive nature of miracle crops; and the response of governments to the farm crisis.. Hard Cover.