Since his release from prison after serving an eighteen-month sentence for growing cannabis, Ben Hecht's life has settled into a familiar routine. On his farm in the foothills of California, he stays busy cultivating a dozen acres of grapes and tending to a flock of mistrustful sheep. Meanwhile, from her desk in their old redwood barn, his novelist wife, Ada, continues to work on what may be her most important book yet. When their only son, Yoel,...

When Junie B. learns that her kindergarten class is going on a field trip to a farm, she worries about being attacked by a rooster.

Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood. An undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic gathering of friends, this activist collective plants crops wherever no one will notice: on the sides of roads, in forgotten parks, and neglected backyards. For years, the group has struggled to break even. Then Mira stumbles on an answer, a way to finally set the group up for the long term: a landslide...

A young boy describes the favorite places that he shares with his family on his grandparents' farm and in the nearby countryside.

Visiting their grandmother's farm, sisters Ilse and Adah discover a mysterious birdcage and learn about their grandmother's journeys through Paris and Rome.

When the pigs start picking on all the other farm animals, Damaris, who is a very clever duck, and her best friend, Rory the sheepdog, find a way to exact revenge, only to find their plot backfiring.

As Thanksgiving Day approaches, Thelonius Turkey becomes worried when Felicia the farmer starts to fatten him up and pluck his feathers.

When Levi Miller goes out of town and leaves Cheryl to look after his land, she never imagines she'll have to do anything more than a quick drive-by every day. However, when she encounters a spate of mysterious digging episodes, which have torn up the fields Levi plans to seed soon, she must swing into action - with the help of a new sleuthing sidekick, Zoey Marsalla. As questions about Zoey and her story are uncovered, Cheryl must decide if she can...

The future is looking bright for Cheryl Cooper and her new fianc?, Levi Miller. Now that they've decided to make a life together, the biggest problem is how will they tell his family? When the town of Sugarcreek holds a pie-contest fund-raiser and many local business owners are invited to judge, Cheryl worries she may be biased because her best friend and future mother-in-law, Naomi Miller, is a contestant. Sill, with the proceeds going toward a good...

Describes the activities on a busy family farm from the spring when preparations for planting begin to the autumn when the cats grow winter coats and the cold rains begin to fall.