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Cultivating Hope

Name: Cultivating Hope
Author: Linda K. Hubalek
ISBN: 9781480094925

by Linda K. Hubalek

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Overview

This second book in the Planting Dreams series portrays Swedish immigrant Charlotts Johnson as she and her husband build a farmstead on the Kansas prairie. This family faced countless challenges as they homesteaded on America's Grat Plains during the 1800s. Years of hard work develop the land and improve the quality of life for her family-but not without a price.

This is a fictionalized account of Charlotta Johnson's life as she and her husband build a farmstead on the Kansas prairie.

Synopsis

Can you imagine being isolated in the middle of treeless grassland with only a dirt roof over your head? Having to feed your children with whatever wild plants or animals you could find living on the prairie? Sweating to plow the sod, plant the seed, cultivate the crop- only to lose it all by a hailstorm right before you harvest it? This second book in the Planting Dreams series portrays Swedish immigrant Charlotta Johnson as she and her husband build a farmstead on the Kansas prairie. This family faced countless challenges as they homestead on America s Great Plains during the 1800s. Years of hard work develop the land and improve the quality of life for her family- but not with a price.

About the Author, Linda K. Hubalek

Award-winning author Linda Hubalek tells us how she ended up writing books about Kansas pioneer women.

In sixth grade we had to write a paper on what we wanted to do when we grew up. My mom had kept it and I found this paper while cleaning through my closet during my college days. According to my dreams back then, I wanted to be a farmer, but my last line was – “but alas, girls can't be farmers.”

Well, I got my Bachelor’s Degree in Agriculture/Horticulture from Kansas State University, did agronomy research for years before starting a wholesale horticulture business. My company, Prairie Flower Creations, grew and dried flowers, ornamental corn, and mini pumpkins for the florist trade.

In 1990 I was featured in Country Woman Magazine, but at the same time, my husband's job was transferred to California. I sold my business and tried to cope, growing flowers and pumpkins in five-gallon buckets on our cement lawn.

I started writing about the family and farmland I was homesick for and started a new career, writing about women ancestors who had moved to the new state of Kansas and farmed its land.

We eventually moved back to Kansas, bought land next to my family, raised buffalo, and I have a garden again. So not only have I fulfilled my dream to be a farmer, I've written about past and present women that have also tilled the prairie land of Kansas.

Please read and enjoy my book series which are about the family that homestead our family farm, and my ancestors that homesteaded in Kansas in the 1800s.

My writing time most days is spent on the computer with marketing my businesses, and working on the next book series.

You can also follow my blog by going to http://www.lindahubalek.com/feed/rss or my Facebook page at http://www.Facebook.com/lindahubalekbooks.
Considered historical fiction, these quality paperback books are age appropriate for everyone from age 9 to 99. Book, quilt, and Scandinavian gift shops sell them (or ask your local store to stock them for you) and schools use them in class studies to portray early pioneer and Kansas history.