
The Keep: Living with the Tame and the Wild on a Mountainside Farm
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781959000525
Publication Date: 10/01/2025
Edition Description: First Edition
When a mid-life couple finds an old farm that promises refuge from hectic lives and encroaching illness, their world opens up to unexpected adventures: breeding heritage goats, hogs, and cattle; managing a half-dozen large guardian dogs; dealing with barn fires, rapacious logging, and the death of treasured animals. The farm and the surrounding forest also lead to surprising moments of beautyfrom sublime sunsets and powerful connections with animals to an outpouring of help from neighbors.
Written separately by wife and husband with distinctly separate voices, the book’s essays illustrate different perspectives of life on a farm dedicated to the compassionate treatment of livestock and a deep appreciation of nature’s complexities. Priscilla embraces the intensity of loving animals; Henry explores the mysteries of living in a beautiful place. And, in telling their tales, the authors provide a glimpse into their own marriageas complicated, improbable, and enduring as life itself. The Keepthe term for “the strongest or central tower of a castle, acting as a final refuge”is a love letter to an unexpected place and adopted lifestyle.
Written separately by wife and husband with distinctly separate voices, the book’s essays illustrate different perspectives of life on a farm dedicated to the compassionate treatment of livestock and a deep appreciation of nature’s complexities. Priscilla embraces the intensity of loving animals; Henry explores the mysteries of living in a beautiful place. And, in telling their tales, the authors provide a glimpse into their own marriageas complicated, improbable, and enduring as life itself. The Keepthe term for “the strongest or central tower of a castle, acting as a final refuge”is a love letter to an unexpected place and adopted lifestyle.
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