Sylvia's Farm: The Journal of an Improbable Shepherd

—Joshua Kilmer-Purcell, The Fabulous Beekman Boys

This collection of stories chronicling Sylvia Jorrin's life on the farm provides comfort and inspiration to all those searching for meaning in life's many blessings.

The world of Sylvia's Farmis a rich landscape of natural beauty and simple pleasures. Sylvia Jorrin never expected to become the first woman in the New York City Watershed to solely own and operate a large livestock farm. But first the farm, and then farm life, captured her heart as it has captured the hearts of all those who have read her book. Through unexpected surprises and unanticipated hardships, Sylvia Jorrin has grown into the epitome of the one thing she never expected to be: a farmer.

With a devoted following of readers inspired by her underlying appreciation of the world around her, Sylvia's Farm is the sort of ageless story that any reader can pick up and enjoy. Sylvia's Farmis, to quote Kirkus Reviews, "The delight-filled education of an out-of-the-clue shepherdess...." consisting of "....fine-grained, honest rural sketches, on a par with Noel Perrin and Don Mitchell."

Sylvia's Farmis a contemporary account of rural farm life and all of the sometimes beautiful, always meaningful lessons that it continues to teach. Told in short vignettes that span over more than a decade, it is a journal of growth, persistence, and the unexpected joys that a new day can bring.