"Letter II from an American farmer" / Jean de Crevecoeur
Eight short prose pieces / Jim Heymen
"In double harness" / Patricia Penton Leimbach
"Haying, a horse, and a hired man" / Donald Hall
Ten poems from Old man Brunner country / Leo Dangel
"Windbreak : a woman rancher on the Northern Plains" / Linda Hasselstrom
"Life on a hill" / Maxine Kumin
"Harvest" / Meridel LeSueur
Eight poems from Alvin Turner as farmer / William Kloefkorn
"Making hay" / Verlyn Klinkenborg
"The farmerless farm" / Mark Kramer
"Low technology in the sugarbush" / Noel Perrin
"The boundary" / Wendell Berry
From Friendship Village / Zona Gale
"Adventure" / Sherwood Anderson
"Home" / Garrison Keillor
Twelve poems from Alliance, Illinois / Dave Etter
"Lizzie, Annie and Rosie's rescue of me with blue cake" / Carolyn Chute
"In the heart of the heart of the country" / William Gass
"Letter from the Lost Swede Towns" / Carol Bly
"Widow water" / Frederick Busch
"The rookers" / Bobbie Ann Mason
"The music of failure : variations on an idea" / Bill Holm.
