Give me any farm book written with real honesty and humor and I'm a happy camper. I read another good farm book after this one, that I liked, but I so missed Catherine's sense of humor. What an interesting journey, both internal and extenal. Sheepish (which I recommend highly) will go on my shelf as a good read to return to, this one might not. This is similar to the latter, but the author is younger and it shows. I think I like Sheepish better, as for this kind of book, in Sheepish the author is more settled and content, and it's more about the farm and life than a memoir/growth story. ' I loved Sheepish and went back to get this one, which preceded it.

It did, however, sell me on the idea of guard llamas.

Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:.Instead of just being a book about farming anecdotes, it was a book about one couple's life choices and how they worked through the problems that beset any partnership.' By the end of the book, though, I thought it was an interesting and important part that helped to tie the whole story together. The part of the book that dealt with the author's relationship with her partner seemed to me to be beside the point, at least in the beginning. It was comforting and humorous to read about other new shepherds making new shepherd mistakes. 'Being a shepherdess, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. By turns funny and moving, Hit by a Farm is a crash course in both living off and living with the land that will appeal to anyone hungering for a connection to rural life. After helping Melissa fulfill her dream, Catherine eventually finds a way to recapture her own.

Hit by a Farm is a hilarious recounting of Catherine’s attempt to become a farmer it is also a coming-of (middle)-age story of a woman trying to close the divide between who she wants to be, and who she really is. They were warm, clean, and not feeling up a ram with sixteen-inch testicles … Wincing, I reached between the ram’s back legs with my thumb and forefinger. At that very moment all my friends were attending a writing conference. ‘Grab his testicles here, around the widest part.’ Right, no problem. Mine began crumbling the day I knelt behind a male sheep, reached between his legs, and squeezed his testicles … Janet, the instructor of this course on raising sheep, had indicated it was my turn.

Hit by a Farm by Catherine Friend