Meditations on Farming
eBook - ePub

Meditations on Farming

The Agrarian Drive, Stress, and Mental Health

  1. 220 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Meditations on Farming

The Agrarian Drive, Stress, and Mental Health

About this book

Unlike any other territorial species, humans have evolved to become agrarians. The unique drive of farmers to cultivate crops and undertake animal husbandry, their tenacious attachment to the land, and their stoic self-reliance are beneficial, but these same qualities also can lead to self-blame and heightened propensities for anxiety, depression, and suicide. Meditations on Farming celebrates nature and agriculture, while tackling a very serious subject: the mental health of food producers. In this collection of essays and stories, Rosmann—a farmer, clinical psychologist, public speaker, policy advocate, professor, and syndicated columnist—traces the development of behavioral health management and other methods for improving the well-being of agricultural producers. Sometimes tragic, often funny, and always engaging, Meditations on Farming shares the insights gained over a lifetime devoted not only to understanding farmers, but to helping and advocating for them.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Title Page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. 1 Opening Day
  8. 2 Why People Farm
  9. 3 Life-Shaping Encounters
  10. 4 My Wife’s Gardens
  11. 5 I Do Some of My Best Thinking in the Raspberry Patch
  12. 6 Fishing for Cruisers
  13. 7 Refinements to the Little Black Fly
  14. 8 Becoming a Grandparent
  15. 9 That Was Too Close
  16. 10 Indigenous Americans’ Attachment to the Land
  17. 11 Lessons Learned about Farmers’ Behavioral Health from the 1980s to Now
  18. 12 Sandhills’ Good, Bad, and Ugly
  19. 13 Nonplussed
  20. 14 Working with Cattle
  21. 15 Horse Sense
  22. 16 Yikes
  23. 17 Farming and Fishing with My Partner
  24. 18 Nugget and Hayden’s Excellent Adventure
  25. 19 Hot Tubs, Kids, and Farmers’ Bodies
  26. 20 Crossing the Border
  27. 21 Kids, Fishing, and Land Stewardship
  28. 22 What Might Agriculture Be Like in the Foreseeable Future?
  29. 23 Next
  30. Mike Rosmann’s Life’s Work