The Rural Voice, 1991-09, Page 63WHAT'S NEW
BOOK OUTLINES
FARM FAMILIES
Farm families and farm fanciers will
wish that they had come along for the
ride when they read all about Phil Jen-
kins' and Ken Ginn's journeys in Fields
of Vision, a new book to be published by
McClelland & Stewart.
Two years ago, Phil Jenkins, a
writer, musician, and literacy worker,
and Ken Ginn, a professional photogra-
pher, decided to drive across Canada
from the farm farthest east to the farm
farthest west, and talk to family farmers.
Along the way, they met ordinary
people with extraordinary stories. What
they came back with was a treasure trove
of remarkable tales and insights into the
nature of farming and the state of the
Canadian family farm.
The results of their travels is Fields
of Vision, a delightful book filled with
fabulous photographs that people will
not want to put down once they pick it
up.
Phil Jenkins and Ken Ginn's journey
started in a cow field overlooking Logy
Bay, near St. John's Newfoundland —
Canada's easternmost farm — where
the elderly Powers brothers still milk
their herd by hand, having tried and
rejected milking machines years ago. In
spite of offers for up to $25 million,
Kevin and Charles Powers refuse to sell
the farm that has been in their family for
generations. The journey ends on an
island in the Yukon River, upstream
from Dawson City, farmed by the
Dowdells, who had no idea that theirs
was the westernmost farm in Canada.
Fields of Vision is a guide to the
various regions of Canada as well as an
introduction to some of the people in
each of those regions who derive their
living from the land, people like: Diane
Harkin of Winchester, Ontario, the city -
bred founder of Women for Survival in
Agriculture, and Allen Wilford of Owen
Sound, a former farmer and farm activist
turned law student, who found his sec-
ond calling after the banks foreclosed on
his farm — "to screw the banks."
Fields of Vision, Phil Jenkins and
Ken Ginn, $29.95. Hardcover, 304
pages, with 32 pages of colour photo-
graphs.0
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