Farm-Raised Kids: Parenting Strategies for Balancing Family Life with Running a Small Farm or Homestead - Paperback

by Katie Kulla (Author)

Learn to raise tiny agriculturists with this insightful guide full of parenting advice and strategies for engaging kids in farm life while you're running your own homestead.

In this first-ever book on the topic, author Katie Kulla offers her own hard-won wisdom, gleaned from more than a decade of raising kids while running a CSA farm with her husband. The book also features invaluable advice and insights from other farmer-parents and a wealth of practical tips and ideas for how to engage children on the farm--including activities for learning and play, and suggestions for how to enlist kids in chores and other farm responsibilities. Included are experiences and stories of diverse farm families encompassing a variety of identities and backgrounds across geographic locations, race and genders, family sizes, and farm scales, to represent the real face of farming today.

Author Biography

Katie Kulla is a farmer, author, and illustrator writing about farming, seasonal eating, nature, and family life. She and her husband started farming in Oregon in 2006 and have two children who were born on the farm and are homeschooled. Katie co-hosts the Growing for Market podcast and her writing has been published in Taproot, Growing for Market Magazine, Farmer-ish, Geez, and GreenPrints. She can be found at katiekulla.com.