Northern Farm (book)

Originally written for The Progressive as a series of columns on country-living, it chronicles a season on a small Maine farm.

Northern Farm has been less commercially successful but still important as environmental writing and popular among Mainers.

[3] Published in 1948, it is a series of short essays inspired by his life and observations at Chimney Farm, an 88-acre farm in Nobleboro that Beston and his wife, the late poet Elizabeth Coatsworth, purchased in 1931.

[3]The Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Dillard made a journal entry concerning Northern Farm:[4] It was a bore.

As an observer of the social scene, which is a boring thing to be in the 1st place, he's ordinary and conservative.