One Small Farm

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Photographs of a Wisconsin Way of Life

Craig Schreiner

Stunning photographs capture the rhythms and routines, the joys and challenges, the sprawling vistas and intimate details of life on a small family farm.

128 pages, 8 x 9, 98 color photos
Hardcover: $24.95 | ISBN: 978-0-87020-617-7
Ebook: $15.99 | ISBN: 978-0-87020-618-4
Publication Date: 8/22/2013

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Description

“Milk in the morning and milk at night. Feed the cows and calves. Plant crops. Grind feed. Chop and bale hay. Cut wood. Clean the barn. Spread manure on the fields. Plow snow and split wood in winter. In spring, pick rocks from the fields. Cultivate corn. Pick corn. Harvest oats and barley. Help calves be born. Milk in the morning and milk at night.” The rhythms and routines of small family farms bring vibrancy to our rural communities and help put food on our tables. In One Small Farm, Craig Schreiner captures in evocative photographs the day-to-day existence of one such farm in the heart of America's Dairyland.

There’s much more to farm life than chores, of course, and Schreiner brings out the richness of everyday life on the farm in all seasons, evoking both the challenges and the joys and providing viewers a window into a world that is quickly fading. In documenting the daily work and life of the Lamberty family of Pine Bluff, Wisconsin, Schreiner's thoughtful photos explore larger questions concerning the future of small farm agriculture, Midwestern cultural traditions, and the rural way of life.

Author Bio

Craig Schreiner

Craig Schreiner has worked for decades as a photojournalist, primarily as a staff photographer for daily newspapers, including sixteen years at the Wisconsin State Journal. He grew up on his parents' farm in northwestern Illinois and has a deep connection to the land and rural people. Schreiner earned a journalism degree with an emphasis in photojournalism from Northern Illinois University, and he has photographed many kinds of domestic news features, long-term projects, and sports assignments, including a national project on rural health care, the Madison labor protests of 2011, two Rose Bowls, and two Super Bowls, among many others. He currently works in the Marketing and Communications office of the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater. He lives in Middleton, Wisconsin.