I have just read Recluse and Ghost and Challenge by Dual Writer again and was wondering whether anyone had any recommendations for other stories where farming former a key part of the story.
I have just read Recluse and Ghost and Challenge by Dual Writer again and was wondering whether anyone had any recommendations for other stories where farming former a key part of the story.
https://storiesonline.net/s/75867/lucky-jim
Lucky jim 2 as well.
https://storiesonline.net/s/14823/escape-from-lexington
The Lucky Jim prequel and Lucky Jim III also had farming as part of the story.
https://storiesonline.net/s/17807/lucky-jim-3-cajun
https://storiesonline.net/s/24886/lucky-jim-prequel
RealLifeDragon has three books in this series https://storiesonline.net/series/202/cammie-sue
https://finestories.com/s/10243/the-next-generation from Wes Boyd, farming is absolutely central to that one. His own site is still up and running but a quick look at the stories there did not show up any others.
Two of DotB's stories fit, https://storiesonline.net/s/46723/car-54 and https://storiesonline.net/s/44553/lisa-marie-amp-unca-tom (unfinished). A couple of the other unfinished stories on his own site would also fit ("Clearwater Confidential" is "Lisa Marie" renamed). From dotB's bio: "I was born on a farm in the prairies and spent the first twenty-five years of my life there".
https://storiesonline.net/s/62814/depression-soup by wordytom is set on a farm.
It strikes me that a number of Western stories could also match, although you may find the various authors not particularly knowledgeable when it comes to RL farming in the 1800's.
https://storiesonline.net/s/67646/the-great-escape has some farming related but in a small way
My recent offering, Details Matter, has the protagonist returning to his family's farm. It's not a major part of the story line, but from about the middle onward it's intertwined there.
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Thanks to everyone for their great recommendations. Please keep them coming if you think of anymore.
To what extent do you want the farming activities to be described?
I've a few stories in the Rivers Region series that have farming activities in them, but they aren't the major part of the story. Plus there are a couple of other stories where farming activities are a part of the story,
https://storiesonline.net/s/11053/a-farmers-life
https://storiesonline.net/s/11523/flames-of-life
https://storiesonline.net/s/11363/mack-coming-of-age-story
https://storiesonline.net/s/74132/times-of-old
https://storiesonline.net/s/13144/will-to-survive
https://storiesonline.net/s/13358/stand-in-time
Ernest farming can be in the back ground to the overall story but personality of the m/c is strongly influenced by the day to day farming life/activities. Your Mack-coming-of-age-story would, in my option, be a good example of that as would Dual Writer's Recluse and Ghost.
A few of Lazlong's stories have farming as an important component:
Help!
Silent Endings - New Beginnings
Wagons Ho! - The Early Years
You can apply that to most Westerns on this site (no, Help! is not a Western), although - as I said above - it does not mean that the authors know what they are writing about.
I think Lazlong may have done, his father may have been a farmer of some kind.
I rather enjoyed 'The Grants' by jballs, although not for the farming ;-)
There is more to a good farming story than ploughing fresh furrows, sowing wild oats and, especally in Lubrican's stories, ending with a bumper harvest.
There is more to a good farming story than ploughing fresh furrows, sowing wild oats and, especally in Lubrican's stories, ending with a bumper harvest.
I wish there was a thumb-up feature in the forums...
A simplistic morality play with stereotypes as the characters, yes - set on a farm. Way too contrived for my taste. At least it's fairly short.
I seem to remember a similar story, Instead of a bet it was about a inheritance. There was something about more money being released as he met some secret stipulations of the will.
'Challenge' by DualWriter is a story about a family of teens who keep farming the family farm after their parents are murdered.
https://storiesonline.net/s/13232/challenge
'Help' by Lazlong is about a story that basically takes over running the family farm from his useless, then absent, and finally dead father.
https://storiesonline.net/s/45911/help
In the Team Manager series there is farming.
The father of the MC lost the family farm, and the family has to move to town. First book starts some 6 to 8 years after loss of the farm. However, it is a small town in farming country.
Book 2 SPRINT has quite a bit about farming in the early 21st century. The MC gets a summer job working on a farm.
High school sports and an unlikely harem are the focus of the story. However, a farm community including barn dances, picnics, church, and the aspects of the farm economy on the characters is a major plot element.