New Book Home on the Farm Brings Readers Inside the Everyday Life of an Iowa Farm Family

Iowa author AJ Hein uses storytelling to preserve the chores, family relationships and experiences that make growing up in dairy country unlike anywhere else.

For a child growing up on a farm, agriculture isn’t an industry. It’s home.

It’s waking up knowing there are chores to be done. It’s animals that need care regardless of the weather, the day of the week or what else might be happening. It’s watching parents work, learning to pitch in and gradually understanding that everyone in a farm family has a role.

That world comes to life in Iowa author AJ Hein’s Home on the Farm, a story rooted in the experiences, traditions and everyday realities of rural farm life.

Through storytelling designed to appeal to young readers while stirring memories among adults, Hein gives readers a glimpse into something increasingly unfamiliar to much of America: what it actually feels like to call a farm home.

Telling the Family Story Behind Dairy Farming

Dairy publications regularly tell stories about milk production, herd health, genetics, technology and farm management.

Home on the Farm explores another side of the industry—the family growing up behind it.

For generations of farm kids, the barn and farm have served as classrooms alongside school. Farm life teaches responsibility. It teaches perseverance when things don’t go according to plan. And it creates memories that often aren’t recognized as extraordinary until years later.

Hein hopes Home on the Farm helps preserve those experiences while giving today’s children a better understanding of the families behind agriculture.

A Chance for Dairy Families to See Themselves in a Book

For farm parents and grandparents, Home on the Farm offers an opportunity to share something familiar with the next generation.

And for children currently growing up on farms, it provides something particularly important: a chance to see a life resembling their own represented on the page.

About Home on the Farm

Home on the Farm by Iowa author AJ Hein brings readers into rural farm life through a story celebrating agriculture, family and the experiences that make growing up in farm country unique.

Purchase Home on the Farm: Amazon