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PublisherMilkweed Editions
ISBN-101571311629
ISBN-139781571311627
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Book TitleSalt Stones : a Shepherd's World, a Shepherd's Mind
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPersonal Memoirs, Parenting / Motherhood, Environmentalists & Naturalists, Animals / General
Publication Year2025
GenreFamily & Relationships, Nature, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorHelen Whybrow
FormatHardcover
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Item Height1 in
Item Weight17.6 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
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LCCN2024-039883
Reviews"Helen Whybrow is a to-the-bone writer, and this is a to-the-bone book--beautiful, real, full of life. You'll reread it." --Bill McKibben, author The End of Nature "This is a wise and beautiful book. Helen Whybrow calls it 'my love song to this hillside,' speaking of the Vermont farm where, for a quarter century, she has distilled wisdom from the land and its creatures--her family, the birds and trees, the flowers and frogs, a stream of visitors, and flocks of sheep--all of them teaching or seeking ways to live intimately in place. A truly moving book, in prose and spirit, filled with deep insights, rich stories, and memorable scenes, a book to be savored and widely shared." --Scott Russell Sanders, author of A Private History of Awe "This profound book returns our gaze to forgotten connections with our animal kin, the Earth, and ourselves. Each paragraph shimmers with heart. With Wendell Berry's sensibilities and Robin Wall Kimmerer's poetic insights, Whybrow leads her readers through fertile fields of discovery and knowing. Her sentences, like carefully placed stones, mark the path toward a calm awareness of what true relationships feel like." --Hank Lentfer, author of Raven's Witness, "Sheep have helped me become a good shepherd, not just to them, but to a place that is my sustenance and joy as well as my unending labor and worry." In the heart of Vermont's Green Mountains, Helen Whybrow and her partner are presented with the opportunity to steward a two-hundred-acre conserved farm. Whybrow knows that "belonging more than anything requires participation" and radically intertwines her life with the land. Six months after purchasing Knoll Farm, they unload a flock of Icelandic sheep onto the field and Whybrow becomes a shepherd entering into "nature's constant cycle of life into death into life" and all its unexpected lessons. The challenging and profoundly rewarding work unfolds for Whybrow in the everyday rituals of farmsteading and caring for her family--birthing lambs in the late winter, harvesting blueberries in summer, fending off coyotes and foxes, seasonal shearing--while instilling the lessons of the land in her daughter and caring for her mother. As life at Knoll Farm endures years both abundant and lean, she learns that true stewardship is about accepting change and adapting. She embraces a transcendent rhythm of blood and bone, milk and muck. At once inspiring and brave, deeply felt and gorgeously written, The Salt Stones is a loving look at the world through a shepherd's interconnected ethos., "Spare prose, great storytelling." -- Esquire , "Best Books of the Summer 2025" "Whybrow's closely observed accounts of working as a shepherd on her Vermont farm are filled with muck, sweat and a hard-won sense of the interconnectedness of the natural world." -- The Washington Post "[Whybrow's] prose is alive with detail but never noisy or flashy. In witnessing the hard but simple work of shepherding these animals, readers will feel themselves somehow tended to." --Kate Tuttle, The Boston Globe "Whybrow writes in compelling, finely chiseled prose about the annual seasonal rhythms at her beloved Knoll Farm. . . . The perfect tonic for these turbulent times." -- BookPage , starred review "In achingly poetic prose, this forthcoming chronicle of life on a Vermont hill farm captures the familial responsibilities of the shepherd -- for animals, parents, children, wild things, and the land upon which we walk for such a brief time." --Rowan Jacobsen, The Week "Helen Whybrow is a to-the-bone writer, and this is a to-the-bone book--beautiful, real, full of life. You'll reread it." --Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature "Riveting, breathtaking, intensely powerful, The Salt Stones pulses with life. I deeply love this wise and beautiful book about land and belonging, love and loss, motherhood and daughterhood, and so much more." --Janisse Ray, author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood "In her poetic and provocative offerings on her life as a shepherd to a flock of sheep, Helen Whybrow evokes the spirit that Aretha Franklin brought to her transcendent recording of 'Somewhere.' Read Whybrow. Listen to Franklin. Rejoice!" --Evelyn C. White, author of Alice Walker "This is a wise and beautiful book. Helen Whybrow calls it 'my love song to this hillside,' speaking of the Vermont farm where, for a quarter century, she has distilled wisdom from the land and its creatures--her family, the birds and trees, the flowers and frogs, a stream of visitors, and flocks of sheep--all of them teaching or seeking ways to live intimately in place. A truly moving book, in prose and spirit, filled with deep insights, rich stories, and memorable scenes, a book to be savored and widely shared." --Scott Russell Sanders, author of A Private History of Awe "This profound book returns our gaze to forgotten connections with our animal kin, the Earth, and ourselves. Each paragraph shimmers with heart. With Wendell Berry's sensibilities and Robin Wall Kimmerer's poetic insights, Whybrow leads her readers through fertile fields of discovery and knowing. Her sentences, like carefully placed stones, mark the path toward a calm awareness of what true relationships feel like." --Hank Lentfer, author of Raven's Witness, "In achingly poetic prose, this forthcoming chronicle of life on a Vermont hill farm captures the familial responsibilities of the shepherd -- for animals, parents, children, wild things, and the land upon which we walk for such a brief time." --Rowan Jacobsen, The Week "Helen Whybrow is a to-the-bone writer, and this is a to-the-bone book--beautiful, real, full of life. You'll reread it." --Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature "In her poetic and provocative offerings on her life as a shepherd to a flock of sheep, Helen Whybrow evokes the spirit that Aretha Franklin brought to her transcendent recording of 'Somewhere.' Read Whybrow. Listen to Franklin. Rejoice!" --Evelyn C. White, author of Alice Walker "This is a wise and beautiful book. Helen Whybrow calls it 'my love song to this hillside,' speaking of the Vermont farm where, for a quarter century, she has distilled wisdom from the land and its creatures--her family, the birds and trees, the flowers and frogs, a stream of visitors, and flocks of sheep--all of them teaching or seeking ways to live intimately in place. A truly moving book, in prose and spirit, filled with deep insights, rich stories, and memorable scenes, a book to be savored and widely shared." --Scott Russell Sanders, author of A Private History of Awe "This profound book returns our gaze to forgotten connections with our animal kin, the Earth, and ourselves. Each paragraph shimmers with heart. With Wendell Berry's sensibilities and Robin Wall Kimmerer's poetic insights, Whybrow leads her readers through fertile fields of discovery and knowing. Her sentences, like carefully placed stones, mark the path toward a calm awareness of what true relationships feel like." --Hank Lentfer, author of Raven's Witness, "Spare prose, great storytelling." -- Esquire , "Best Books of the Summer 2025" "Whybrow writes in compelling, finely chiseled prose about the annual seasonal rhythms at her beloved Knoll Farm. . . . The perfect tonic for these turbulent times." -- BookPage , starred review "In achingly poetic prose, this forthcoming chronicle of life on a Vermont hill farm captures the familial responsibilities of the shepherd -- for animals, parents, children, wild things, and the land upon which we walk for such a brief time." --Rowan Jacobsen, The Week "Helen Whybrow is a to-the-bone writer, and this is a to-the-bone book--beautiful, real, full of life. You'll reread it." --Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature "Riveting, breathtaking, intensely powerful, The Salt Stones pulses with life. I deeply love this wise and beautiful book about land and belonging, love and loss, motherhood and daughterhood, and so much more." --Janisse Ray, author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood "In her poetic and provocative offerings on her life as a shepherd to a flock of sheep, Helen Whybrow evokes the spirit that Aretha Franklin brought to her transcendent recording of 'Somewhere.' Read Whybrow. Listen to Franklin. Rejoice!" --Evelyn C. White, author of Alice Walker "This is a wise and beautiful book. Helen Whybrow calls it 'my love song to this hillside,' speaking of the Vermont farm where, for a quarter century, she has distilled wisdom from the land and its creatures--her family, the birds and trees, the flowers and frogs, a stream of visitors, and flocks of sheep--all of them teaching or seeking ways to live intimately in place. A truly moving book, in prose and spirit, filled with deep insights, rich stories, and memorable scenes, a book to be savored and widely shared." --Scott Russell Sanders, author of A Private History of Awe "This profound book returns our gaze to forgotten connections with our animal kin, the Earth, and ourselves. Each paragraph shimmers with heart. With Wendell Berry's sensibilities and Robin Wall Kimmerer's poetic insights, Whybrow leads her readers through fertile fields of discovery and knowing. Her sentences, like carefully placed stones, mark the path toward a calm awareness of what true relationships feel like." --Hank Lentfer, author of Raven's Witness, "Whybrow writes in compelling, finely chiseled prose about the annual seasonal rhythms at her beloved Knoll Farm. . . . The perfect tonic for these turbulent times." -- BookPage , starred review "In achingly poetic prose, this forthcoming chronicle of life on a Vermont hill farm captures the familial responsibilities of the shepherd -- for animals, parents, children, wild things, and the land upon which we walk for such a brief time." --Rowan Jacobsen, The Week "Helen Whybrow is a to-the-bone writer, and this is a to-the-bone book--beautiful, real, full of life. You'll reread it." --Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature "Riveting, breathtaking, intensely powerful, The Salt Stones pulses with life. I deeply love this wise and beautiful book about land and belonging, love and loss, motherhood and daughterhood, and so much more." --Janisse Ray, author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood "In her poetic and provocative offerings on her life as a shepherd to a flock of sheep, Helen Whybrow evokes the spirit that Aretha Franklin brought to her transcendent recording of 'Somewhere.' Read Whybrow. Listen to Franklin. Rejoice!" --Evelyn C. White, author of Alice Walker "This is a wise and beautiful book. Helen Whybrow calls it 'my love song to this hillside,' speaking of the Vermont farm where, for a quarter century, she has distilled wisdom from the land and its creatures--her family, the birds and trees, the flowers and frogs, a stream of visitors, and flocks of sheep--all of them teaching or seeking ways to live intimately in place. A truly moving book, in prose and spirit, filled with deep insights, rich stories, and memorable scenes, a book to be savored and widely shared." --Scott Russell Sanders, author of A Private History of Awe "This profound book returns our gaze to forgotten connections with our animal kin, the Earth, and ourselves. Each paragraph shimmers with heart. With Wendell Berry's sensibilities and Robin Wall Kimmerer's poetic insights, Whybrow leads her readers through fertile fields of discovery and knowing. Her sentences, like carefully placed stones, mark the path toward a calm awareness of what true relationships feel like." --Hank Lentfer, author of Raven's Witness, "In achingly poetic prose, this forthcoming chronicle of life on a Vermont hill farm captures the familial responsibilities of the shepherd -- for animals, parents, children, wild things, and the land upon which we walk for such a brief time." --Rowan Jacobsen, The Week "Helen Whybrow is a to-the-bone writer, and this is a to-the-bone book--beautiful, real, full of life. You'll reread it." --Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature "Riveting, breathtaking, intensely powerful, The Salt Stones pulses with life. I deeply love this wise and beautiful book about land and belonging, love and loss, motherhood and daughterhood, and so much more." --Janisse Ray, author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood "In her poetic and provocative offerings on her life as a shepherd to a flock of sheep, Helen Whybrow evokes the spirit that Aretha Franklin brought to her transcendent recording of 'Somewhere.' Read Whybrow. Listen to Franklin. Rejoice!" --Evelyn C. White, author of Alice Walker "This is a wise and beautiful book. Helen Whybrow calls it 'my love song to this hillside,' speaking of the Vermont farm where, for a quarter century, she has distilled wisdom from the land and its creatures--her family, the birds and trees, the flowers and frogs, a stream of visitors, and flocks of sheep--all of them teaching or seeking ways to live intimately in place. A truly moving book, in prose and spirit, filled with deep insights, rich stories, and memorable scenes, a book to be savored and widely shared." --Scott Russell Sanders, author of A Private History of Awe "This profound book returns our gaze to forgotten connections with our animal kin, the Earth, and ourselves. Each paragraph shimmers with heart. With Wendell Berry's sensibilities and Robin Wall Kimmerer's poetic insights, Whybrow leads her readers through fertile fields of discovery and knowing. Her sentences, like carefully placed stones, mark the path toward a calm awareness of what true relationships feel like." --Hank Lentfer, author of Raven's Witness, "Spare prose, great storytelling." -- Esquire , "Best Books of the Summer 2025" "Revelatory. . . magical. . . Whybrow beautifully explores interconnectedness and disruption in nature." --Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post "Beautiful . . . Whybrow's prose is alive. In witnessing the hard but simple work of shepherding these animals, readers will feel themselves somehow tended to." --Kate Tuttle, The Boston Globe "Whybrow writes in compelling, finely chiseled prose about the annual seasonal rhythms at her beloved Knoll Farm. . . . The perfect tonic for these turbulent times." -- BookPage , starred review "In achingly poetic prose, this forthcoming chronicle of life on a Vermont hill farm captures the familial responsibilities of the shepherd -- for animals, parents, children, wild things, and the land upon which we walk for such a brief time." --Rowan Jacobsen, The Week "Helen Whybrow is a to-the-bone writer, and this is a to-the-bone book--beautiful, real, full of life. You'll reread it." --Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature "Riveting, breathtaking, intensely powerful, The Salt Stones pulses with life. I deeply love this wise and beautiful book about land and belonging, love and loss, motherhood and daughterhood, and so much more." --Janisse Ray, author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood "In her poetic and provocative offerings on her life as a shepherd to a flock of sheep, Helen Whybrow evokes the spirit that Aretha Franklin brought to her transcendent recording of 'Somewhere.' Read Whybrow. Listen to Franklin. Rejoice!" --Evelyn C. White, author of Alice Walker "This is a wise and beautiful book. Helen Whybrow calls it 'my love song to this hillside,' speaking of the Vermont farm where, for a quarter century, she has distilled wisdom from the land and its creatures--her family, the birds and trees, the flowers and frogs, a stream of visitors, and flocks of sheep--all of them teaching or seeking ways to live intimately in place. A truly moving book, in prose and spirit, filled with deep insights, rich stories, and memorable scenes, a book to be savored and widely shared." --Scott Russell Sanders, author of A Private History of Awe "This profound book returns our gaze to forgotten connections with our animal kin, the Earth, and ourselves. Each paragraph shimmers with heart. With Wendell Berry's sensibilities and Robin Wall Kimmerer's poetic insights, Whybrow leads her readers through fertile fields of discovery and knowing. Her sentences, like carefully placed stones, mark the path toward a calm awareness of what true relationships feel like." --Hank Lentfer, author of Raven's Witness, "Helen Whybrow is a to-the-bone writer, and this is a to-the-bone book--beautiful, real, full of life. You'll reread it."--Bill McKibben, author The End of Nature, "Spare prose, great storytelling." -- Esquire , "Best Books of the Summer 2025" "Revelatory. . . magical. . . Whybrow beautifully explores interconnectedness and disruption in nature." --Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post "Whybrow's closely-observed accounts of her working life as a shepherd are filled with muck, sweat and a hard-won sense of the interconnectedness of the natural world." --NPR "Fresh Air" "Beautiful . . . Whybrow's prose is alive. In witnessing the hard but simple work of shepherding these animals, readers will feel themselves somehow tended to." --Kate Tuttle, The Boston Globe "Whybrow writes in compelling, finely chiseled prose about the annual seasonal rhythms at her beloved Knoll Farm. . . . The perfect tonic for these turbulent times." -- BookPage , starred review "In achingly poetic prose, this forthcoming chronicle of life on a Vermont hill farm captures the familial responsibilities of the shepherd -- for animals, parents, children, wild things, and the land upon which we walk for such a brief time." --Rowan Jacobsen, The Week "Helen Whybrow is a to-the-bone writer, and this is a to-the-bone book--beautiful, real, full of life. You'll reread it." --Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature "Riveting, breathtaking, intensely powerful, The Salt Stones pulses with life. I deeply love this wise and beautiful book about land and belonging, love and loss, motherhood and daughterhood, and so much more." --Janisse Ray, author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood "In her poetic and provocative offerings on her life as a shepherd to a flock of sheep, Helen Whybrow evokes the spirit that Aretha Franklin brought to her transcendent recording of 'Somewhere.' Read Whybrow. Listen to Franklin. Rejoice!" --Evelyn C. White, author of Alice Walker "This is a wise and beautiful book. Helen Whybrow calls it 'my love song to this hillside,' speaking of the Vermont farm where, for a quarter century, she has distilled wisdom from the land and its creatures--her family, the birds and trees, the flowers and frogs, a stream of visitors, and flocks of sheep--all of them teaching or seeking ways to live intimately in place. A truly moving book, in prose and spirit, filled with deep insights, rich stories, and memorable scenes, a book to be savored and widely shared." --Scott Russell Sanders, author of A Private History of Awe "This profound book returns our gaze to forgotten connections with our animal kin, the Earth, and ourselves. Each paragraph shimmers with heart. With Wendell Berry's sensibilities and Robin Wall Kimmerer's poetic insights, Whybrow leads her readers through fertile fields of discovery and knowing. Her sentences, like carefully placed stones, mark the path toward a calm awareness of what true relationships feel like." --Hank Lentfer, author of Raven's Witness, "In achingly poetic prose, this forthcoming chronicle of life on a Vermont hill farm captures the familial responsibilities of the shepherd -- for animals, parents, children, wild things, and the land upon which we walk for such a brief time." --Rowan Jacobsen, The Week "Helen Whybrow is a to-the-bone writer, and this is a to-the-bone book--beautiful, real, full of life. You'll reread it." --Bill McKibben, author The End of Nature "This is a wise and beautiful book. Helen Whybrow calls it 'my love song to this hillside,' speaking of the Vermont farm where, for a quarter century, she has distilled wisdom from the land and its creatures--her family, the birds and trees, the flowers and frogs, a stream of visitors, and flocks of sheep--all of them teaching or seeking ways to live intimately in place. A truly moving book, in prose and spirit, filled with deep insights, rich stories, and memorable scenes, a book to be savored and widely shared." --Scott Russell Sanders, author of A Private History of Awe "This profound book returns our gaze to forgotten connections with our animal kin, the Earth, and ourselves. Each paragraph shimmers with heart. With Wendell Berry's sensibilities and Robin Wall Kimmerer's poetic insights, Whybrow leads her readers through fertile fields of discovery and knowing. Her sentences, like carefully placed stones, mark the path toward a calm awareness of what true relationships feel like." --Hank Lentfer, author of Raven's Witness, "Spare prose, great storytelling." -- Esquire , "Best Books of the Summer 2025" "Revelatory. . . magical. . . Whybrow beautifully explores interconnectedness and disruption in nature." --Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post "Whybrow's closely-observed accounts of her working life as a shepherd are filled with muck, sweat and a hard-won sense of the interconnectedness of the natural world." --NPR "Fresh Air" "Beautiful . . . Whybrow's prose is alive. In witnessing the hard but simple work of shepherding these animals, readers will feel themselves somehow tended to." --Kate Tuttle, The Boston Globe "Whybrow writes in compelling, finely chiseled prose about the annual seasonal rhythms at her beloved Knoll Farm. . . . The perfect tonic for these turbulent times." -- BookPage , starred review "Through gripping anecdotes and thought-provoking meditations, this superbly crafted memoir recounts a quarter century of raising sheep. . . . As we immerse ourselves in this surprisingly eventful and vital account of the pastoral life, we may feel like we're coming home." --Margot Harrison, Seven Days Vermont "In achingly poetic prose, this forthcoming chronicle of life on a Vermont hill farm captures the familial responsibilities of the shepherd -- for animals, parents, children, wild things, and the land upon which we walk for such a brief time." --Rowan Jacobsen, The Week "Helen Whybrow is a to-the-bone writer, and this is a to-the-bone book--beautiful, real, full of life. You'll reread it." --Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature "Riveting, breathtaking, intensely powerful, The Salt Stones pulses with life. I deeply love this wise and beautiful book about land and belonging, love and loss, motherhood and daughterhood, and so much more." --Janisse Ray, author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood "In her poetic and provocative offerings on her life as a shepherd to a flock of sheep, Helen Whybrow evokes the spirit that Aretha Franklin brought to her transcendent recording of 'Somewhere.' Read Whybrow. Listen to Franklin. Rejoice!" --Evelyn C. White, author of Alice Walker "This is a wise and beautiful book. Helen Whybrow calls it 'my love song to this hillside,' speaking of the Vermont farm where, for a quarter century, she has distilled wisdom from the land and its creatures--her family, the birds and trees, the flowers and frogs, a stream of visitors, and flocks of sheep--all of them teaching or seeking ways to live intimately in place. A truly moving book, in prose and spirit, filled with deep insights, rich stories, and memorable scenes, a book to be savored and widely shared." --Scott Russell Sanders, author of A Private History of Awe "This profound book returns our gaze to forgotten connections with our animal kin, the Earth, and ourselves. Each paragraph shimmers with heart. With Wendell Berry's sensibilities and Robin Wall Kimmerer's poetic insights, Whybrow leads her readers through fertile fields of discovery and knowing. Her sentences, like carefully placed stones, mark the path toward a calm awareness of what true relationships feel like." --Hank Lentfer, author of Raven's Witness
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SynopsisLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A PBS NewsHour Summer Reading Recommendation Featured on NPR's Fresh Air An Esquire "Best Books of Summer 2025" "Revelatory. . . magical. . . Whybrow beautifully explores interconnectedness and disruption in nature."--Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post Set in Vermont's Green Mountains, a profoundly moving meditation on the lessons and wisdom that come from raising a family, tending sheep, and living close to the land. In the heart of Vermont's Green Mountains, Helen Whybrow and her partner set out to restore an old two-hundred-acre farm. Knowing that "belonging more than anything requires participation," they begin to intertwine their lives with the land. But soon after releasing a flock of Icelandic sheep onto the worn-out fields, Whybrow realizes that the art of shepherding extends far beyond the flock and fences of Knoll Farm. In prose both vivid and lean, The Salt Stones offers an intimate and profoundly moving story of what it means to care for a flock and truly inhabit a piece of land. The shepherd's life unfolds for Whybrow in the seasons and cycles of farming and family--birthing lambs, fending off coyotes, rescuing lost sheep in a storm, and raising children while witnessing her mother's decline. Exploring the interdependence of animals, as well as of the earth and ourselves, Whybrow reflects on the ways sheep connect her to place and to the ancient practice of shepherding. Evocative, affectionate, and illuminating, The Salt Stones sings of a way of life that is at once ancient and entirely contemporary, inspiring us all to seek greater intimacy and a sense of belonging wherever our home place may be.
LC Classification NumberSF375.32.W49A3 2025
