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NORTHERN HARVEST: TWENTY MICHIGAN WOMEN IN FOOD AND FARMING https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/northern-harvest Susan Odom’s Story As children Susan Odom and her little sister played Little House on the Prairie . " I would go out hunting and I would bring back every time six deer and six bear   . . . and then we would proceed to tell each other how we were going to butcher these animals.”   That childhood fantasy came to life many years later.   In her story, chapter 18 of Northern Harvest, Rose Hollander describes taking part in an all-woman butchery weekend.   The organizer of that weekend was Susan Odom. To learn how Susan’s life led her from her childhood suburban home near Detroit where farming was only a fantasy to owning and managing her own historic farm, Hillside Homestead, with numerous livestock and traditional 19th century implements for farming and cooking--including churns and dippers--you can now order  Northern Harvest