What ensues is a crash course in both living off and with the land that ultimately allows Catherine to help fulfill Melissa's dreams while not losing sight of her own. When self-confessed "urban bookworm" Catherine Friend's partner of twelve years decides she wants to fulfill her lifelong dream of owning a farm, Catherine agrees. I was there with my partner Melissa, the woman I'd lived with for twelve years, because we were going to start a farm. This took place one blustery November day when I joined other shepherd-wannabees for a class on the basics of raising sheep. Mine began crumbling the day I knelt behind a male sheep, reached between his legs, and squeezed his testicles. 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.About the Book Farms have fences. After helping Melissa fulfill her dream, Catherine eventually finds a way to recapture her own. 'Don't pinch him,' Janet cried." 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.
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