When a stranger with a secret rolls into a town divided, the land--and its people--will never be ...

When the world floods and freedom drowns, resistance rises from the most unlikely rebels.

From the winner of the 2014 Regional Emmy Award for A Farm Winter with Jerry Apps Jerry Apps, ren...

What's the secret of living to the age of 90?Lifelong learning and recognition of the lessons you...

The year is 1955. The H. H. Harlow Pickle Company has appeared in the small town of Link Lake, us...

When Jerry Apps was growing up on a Wisconsin farm in the 1930s and 1940s, times were tough. Yet ...

When the White Pine Was King: A History of Lumberjacks, Log Drives, and Sawdust Cities in Wisconsin

A popular collection of memories and recollections from people who learned at and taught in one-r...

Updated and expanded version of: Rural wisdom: time-honored values of the Midwest. Amherst, Wis.:...

Jerry's dad knows that no one can resist the taste of breaking ground rutabagas. Follow Jerry and...

Celebrated storyteller Jerry Apps is back with a look at the ethereal, eternal touchstone of rura...

'Horse-Drawn Days: A Century of Farming with Horses' captures stories of rural life at a time whe...

The fourth novel in Jerry Apps's Ames County series, Cranberry Red brings the story into the pres...

In this new edition of his classic book, award-winning author Jerry Apps shares a unique perspect...

Letters from Hillside Farm

Wisconsin has not always been the dairy state, but cheese is a notable part of its heritage. Capt...

The Land Still Lives

Wisconsin Agriculture: A History shares the diverse back-story of agriculture in America's 'dairy...

Farm boy professor shares a life of lessons.

'In Planting an Idea, authors Jerry Apps and Natasha Kassulke explore how critical and creative t...

''Fishing stories have been a part of my life from the time I was old enough to hold a cane pole ...

Plum Falls, New York, 1840s: Dismissed from Harvard Divinity School for his progressive beliefs, ...

'This book is based in part on 'When the White Pine Was King', written by Jerry Apps and publishe...

When the Alstage Mining Company proposes a frac sand mine in the small Ames County village of Lin...

Wisconsin license plates hail the state as 'America's Dairyland'. It would be equally appropriate...

'Ringlingville USA' is the story of seven brothers who started with next to nothing and became th...

Best-selling author Jerry Apps takes readers on a journey to the Boundary Waters, sharing advice ...

No matter what Reader's Digest would have you believe, C.J. Anderson wants you to know he's no he...

One of the Midwest's best-loved authors tells the story of his land, from the last great glacier ...

Between 1933 and 1942, the Civilian Conservation Corps, a popular New Deal relief program, was at...

Have you ever wondered why Swiss cheese has holes? You'll find out in this story about a Swiss ch...

The Midwest in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s was a special place, where parents and children worked s...

'During Jerry Apps's childhood on the farm, he witnessed the second great revolution in farming--...

The Old Timer Says

Polio was epidemic in the United States starting in 1916. By the 1930s, quarantines and school cl...

Step into the garden with writer and rural historian Jerry Apps. In this treasure trove of tips, ...

This addition to the Badger Biographies series for young readers features the story of the young ...

Combining his signature lively storytelling and careful observations of the natural world, Jerry ...

In this collection of thoughtful essays, Jerry Apps reflects on the 'simple things' that made up ...

Jerry App's farm stories open the barn door to understanding life in the country.

Billy Steiner, 16, is trying to decide what to do after high school, when so many adults seem to ...

'Jerry Apps explores the history of county and state fairs in Wisconsin, from their earliest inca...

Bill Steiner, a farm boy, has just completed his first year of studies at the University of Wisco...

More Than Words

'In a twenty-first-century landscape marked by unprecedented challenges, the relevance of agricul...

A shattered window. A fractured community. One man caught in the middle.

The beloved family farm memoir now in paperback

In 1955 Wisconsin, the cucumbers aren't the only things under pressure.