My book, Kayaking with Lambs, is now available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble, and independent bookstore link Bookshop.org (as well as the publisher, Front Porch Republic Books). I will be looking for opportunities to share this book and my experiences. Small books like this need a helping hand. So, if you have a podcast to suggest, or a publication to recommend for a review, please contact me at: bmiller@wingedelmfarm.com. And please do leave a positive review on Amazon (it helps) and Goodreads.

For those of you who listen to podcasts, I have been interviewed on a couple over the past few months (promoting my book). The experience of being asked questions and having to respond on the spot is certainly an interesting and new one for me. It has taught me that I’m better at coming up with an answer after a few days of mulling it over. Alas, that is not the format on offer.

A one-and-a-half-hour interaction with two hosts (Josh and Jason) of the Doomer Optimism podcast: youtube.com/watch?v=MIhsXKq0ZzY

A thirty-minute Q&A with John Murdock of the Brass Spittoon podcast: frontporchrepublic.com/2024/01/brian-miller-on-kayaking-with-lambs/ (Link is near the bottom.)

If you would like my signature for your copy, drop me a letter or postcard at the address below. I’ll send you a signed bookplate to paste and slap on the inside cover.

Thanks,

Brian Miller

1285 Sweetwater Rd.

Philadelphia, TN 37846

Advance praise for Kayaking with Lambs

This is a beautifully sensual account of the sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and emotions entailed in daily life on a Tennessee farm, very lovingly rendered with gratitude for being in a place worth caring about.

James Howard Kunstler, author of the World Made By Hand novels.

I’ve long been an admirer of Brian Miller’s writing, and I hope this delightful book will find him many new readers. With perfect authorial control, it combines lyricism, self-deprecating humor, a grounding in place, political wisdom that’s all the more powerful for its understatement, and deep practical knowledge from a life on the land. A book to be read and enjoyed, but also—more unusually—to be acted upon.

Chris Smaje, author of Saying No to a Farm-Free Future

What a beautiful and inspiring book!  Brian Miller has given us a wonderful meditation on the glories and difficulties of life on his well-ordered East Tennessee farm.  Chronicled according to the liturgy of the hours, Miller reminds us of the importance of learning “to walk and not run though the seasons.” It is rich in both literary allusion and sober practical advice.  Kayaking with Lambs is a celebration of the archaic arts, the joy of duty, and the rich rewards of the habit of attention.

Scott H. Moore, author of How to Burn a Goat: farming with the philosophers

From the taste of a fat blackberry on a warm afternoon to ‘the sound of the moon rising’ to the sweet smell of lamb poop, Brian Miller conveys the small joys, alongside the modern perplexities, of shepherding a small farm. His attention to the cycles of life, of the seasons, and of each day transforms his ‘farm notes’ into a form of poetry.  

Allan Carlson, author of The New Agrarian Mind

Good books about farm life and rural community are rare to say the least. Great books are rarer still. In Kayaking with Lambs, Brian Miller has accomplished the latter. Arranged as daily mediations, Miller takes readers on a delightful journey of his working farm, baring his heart and soul in the process. Along the way, we meet a menagerie of farm animals, as well as his best and sometimes not-so-good neighbors. A fantastic read.

Donald E. Davis, author of Where There Are Mountains: An Environmental History of the Southern Appalachians.