Memoirs   This Life Is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone Highly recommended for any farmer, young or new. Melissa Coleman details the life of a farmer from a child’s perspective. As the daughter of Eliot Coleman, Melissa was in the “limelight” of organic farming. Yet the life of even the super-star organic farmer is not as pristine and romantic and we would all like to believe. Melissa digs into the deep strains that farming took on her childhood (and her mother’s and sister’s). Any aspiring, current  or former farmer will leave this book with a deep appreciation for the importance of a balanced lifestyle between farm and farmily.