"Home on the Farm" is a series of memoir essays centered around Jerry R. Davis formative years in 1930s and 1940s rural Michigan. "Home on the Farm, Essays on a Michigan Childhood" is a surprisingly readable series of reminiscessays which introduce the reader to a child's eye view of life in Great Depression and WWII Era rural Michigan. Jerry R. Davis has both nostalgia for and no illusions about the differences between life then and now and is not shy about pointing them out.

"Home on the Farm" is interesting reading for anyone who enjoys learning about the lives of others. Jerry R. Davis answers questions that most people would be too shy to ask about life on the farm and life in general as well as things that you would ask and the actual facts may surprise you. He covers the merciless Darwinian nature of chickens, the educational nature of state fairs, the good and bad points of the one room school house, the social nature of farming and how it changed with the invention of new machinery and even some very personal confidences and confessions about life in his family.

The essay style structure of "Home on the Farm" makes it the kind of book that you can safely open at random and read without worrying about missing something. "Home on the Farm" is both a good read and a good coffee table conversation starting book.