When Slow Food activist David Mas Masumoto’s father has a stroke in the sprawling fields of their farm, it drove him to reevaluate the significance and meaning of farm¬ing in an information-driven, modern world. Here Masumoto farms beautiful and lyrical stories-finding the natural connections between families and farm¬ing, fathers and children, booms and declines, and relating them to larger, more sweeping themes of life, death, and renewal.