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Available now (3rd Edition):
Minnie Rose Lovgreen's 
Recipe for Raising Chickens 
(Order now)
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Far As I Can Remember: 
Minnie Rose Lovgreen's Life Story 
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Discover Nancy Rekow's
      Blog about Minnie's
      book and life
 
Read the fine article  
      in MaryJane'sFarm
      Magazine, Dec. to Jan.
      2010 issue. See the
      magazine cover
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Read The Country Register 
      article,  Washington, 
      E. Oregon & Idaho
      edition, Oct.-Nov., 2009
      (pages 4 & 5)
 
Read the article in Seward
      City News by Ryan
      Reynolds, Feb. 5, 2010
 
Read excerpts from
      Minnie Rose's life
      story
 
Enjoy notes from Minnie
      Rose's readers
 
Purchase Options for Minnie Rose Lovgreen's Recipe for Raising Chickens
      --Order from your local 
           bookstore who can get the
           book from Partners West
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Pre-order  Minnie Rose's
      life story:   Far As I Can
      Remember  (150 pp.,
      publication date: 
      May 1, 2010)
Read Nancy Rekow's
      poem  
      about Minnie Rose
 
Solve the Minnie Rose
      jigsaw puzzle.

In 1912, a young English country-woman named Minnie Rose Enefer booked passage on the Titanic, but fortunately then grew restless and sailed on a ship leaving earlier. Eventually she moved to Bainbridge Island, WA, where she married Danish Leo Lovgreen.  Together, with their 2 sons, they ran a thiving 170-acre dairy farm on Bainbridge for 30 years.

Minnie Rose, a chicken lover and gifted storyteller, had always wanted to write a book on raising chickens, but was always too busy.  Then in Nov., 1974, soon after her 86th birthday, she was diagnosed with cancer. Her friend Nancy Rekow took the ferry into Seattle, appeared in her hospital room with a tape recorder, and said, "Minnie Rose, now we're going to write your book." And they did.

For days, in that hospital room, Nancy listened and tape-recorded Minnie's wise words, then transcribed the tapes, edited and hand-lettered the entire text, enlisted their friend and neighbor, Elizabeth Hutchison, to illustrate the book, and self-published a 1st edition of 1,000 copies that sold out in a month.

"I was busy with four young children, so didn't have time to reprint and go on publishing the book," Nancy says. In May, 1975, she took the book to Seattle where Pacific Search Press agreed to print a 2nd edition of 20,000 copies. (That 2nd Edition has now been out of print for many years.)

Meanwhile in May, 1975, Minnie Rose celebrated the book's 2nd Edition with an autograph party and also  appeared on
King TV.  She died that same year, pleased to know that her chicken-raising advice was 

 

reaching thousands of people across the country.

Illustrations:  Because Nancy and Elizabeth, the illustrator, had little time to put the book together that cold spring, they had to improvise--especially Elizabeth. To draw fighting roosters when she owned only one, she set up a mirror under her barn, then drew the rooster fiercely battling  his own reflection. For the dust-bath illustration, she dried the soggy Northwest mud under the barn with a heat lamp and drew the chickens happily taking dust baths.

"...a priceless present to chicken lovers everywhere." --MaryJane'sFarm
Magazine, Nov. 2009
 

"....splendid guide...absolute delight...fresh, natural voice of a wise old neighbor sharing a lifetime of experience." --Ann Lovejoy, author, educator, chicken lover
 

"....a veritable bible on how to raise chickens...."  --Emmett Watson, Seattle PI, April 1975
 

"...a delight, both practical and charming. We've sold hundreds...so glad it's back in print."  --Eagle Harbor Book Co., Bainbridge Island, WA
 
"...classic for chicken enthusiasts... republished to show a new generation the joys of backyard chicken-raising."  --Partners West Book Distributors

 

 

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