By turns funny and moving, Hit by a Farm is a crash course in both living off and living with the land that will appeal to anyone hungering for a connection to rural life.

After helping Melissa fulfill her dream, Catherine eventually finds a way to recapture her own. Hit by a Farm is a hilarious recounting of Catherine's attempt to become a farmer it is also a coming-of(middle)-age story of a woman trying to close the divide between who she wants to be, and who she really is. They were warm, clean, and not feeling up a ram with sixteen-inch testicles.Wincing, I reached between the ram's back legs with my thumb and forefinger. At that very moment all my friends were attending a writing conference. 'Grab his testicles here, around the widest part.' Right, no problem. Mine began crumbling the day I knelt behind a male sheep, reached between his legs, and squeezed his testicles.Janet, the instructor of this course on raising sheep, had indicated it was my turn. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. Hit by a Farm is a hilarious recounting of Catherine and Melissa's trials of 'getting back to the land.' It is also a coming-of (middle)-age story of a woman trying to cross the divide between who she is and who she wants to be, and the story of a couple who say 'goodbye city life' - and learn more than they ever bargained for about love, land, and yes, sheep sex. What ensues is a crash course in both living off and with the land that ultimately allows Catherine to help fulfill Melissa's dreams while not losing sight of her own. When self-confessed 'urban bookworm' Catherine Friend's partner of twelve years decides she wants to fulfill her lifelong dream of owning a farm, Catherine agrees. I was there with my partner Melissa, the woman I'd lived with for twelve years, because we were going to start a farm. This took place one blustery November day when I joined other shepherd-wannabees for a class on the basics of raising sheep. Mine began crumbling the day I knelt behind a male sheep, reached between his legs, and squeezed his testicles.

Hit by a Farm by Catherine Friend