A Bushel's Worth: An Ecobiography

“Scattered in among musings of local food systems, community action, family history, and current farm realities are clear moments of reflection that demonstrate Short’s acumen as a writer.”

–TERRAIN

“Short’s focus on a CSA makes this memoir distinctive from other recent farm-related nonfiction.”

—WESTERN AMERICAN LITERATURE JOURNAL

“A Bushel’s Worth is my favorite kind of nonfiction. Not only is it about many topics close to my heart–gardening, food, family–it is a beautifully told story, and a love story at that, centered around the love of a couple, their love for the land, and a community’s love for a way of life. This book forever changed my perspective and awareness as I ‘walk out’ in my own garden.”

–KATRINA KITTLE, author of The Blessings of the Animals

“A heartfelt meditation on farm, food, and family. A Bushel’s Worth tells a love story of the land and a life spent caring for it.”

–HANNAH NORDHAUS, author of The Beekeeper’s Lament

“An inspiring story, a gift for all of us, both on and off the farm, who are trying to learn how to slow down our frenzied lives so that we may give ourselves to what really matters.”

–GREGORY SPAID, author of Grace: Photographs of Rural America

“With a companionable mix of literary and earthy sensibilities, Kayann Short writes with graceful, ferocious attentiveness and finds reassurance for herself and her modern family in ‘the old wisdom of the fields.'”

–JOHN CALDERAZZO, author of Rising Fire

“A loving natural history–of a farm, a marriage, and a way of life that has changed interestingly and dramatically over just a few generations.”

–JANE SHELLENBERGER, author of Organic Gardener’s Companion

KAYANN SHORT, Ph.D., is a writer, farmer, teacher, and activist at Stonebridge Farm, an organic community-supported farm in the Rocky Mountain foothills. She has directed memoir and digital storytelling projects with community elders, adult literacy students, and nonprofit organizations. Her writing has appeared in Women’s Review of Books, The Bloomsbury Review, Edible Front Range, and Colorado Gardener. More on her ecology-based memoir work is available at www.ecobiography.com. Besides growing delicious food at Stonebridge, Short teaches the important place of organic food production and agricultural preservation in a healthy, environmentally sustainable community.