Actual stock approx 574 (1/1/2024)
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Reduced pricing for books purchased on this website!

Successful Gardening on the Northern Prairie is an an easy-to-read, common-sense manual for gardeners on the plains of Western Minnesota, Eastern South Dakota, North Dakota, and Montana.

To pay by check, please e-mail eric@ericbergeson.com with your order and we will get back to you with your total.

Country Scribe Publishing
4177 County Highway 1
Fertile, MN 56540

Actual stock approx 398 (1/1/2024)
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Get ready to grow!

Let’s Grow on the Northern Prairie is not only an inspiring pictorial companion to the popular Successful Gardening on the Northern Prairie, but is also a call-to-action to beautify our region with hardy trees, as well as effective annual and perennial plantings.

Included are over 190 color photographs of what works on the northern prairie, as well as a few of what doesn’t.

The unique conditions of the northern prairie are addressed in detail, making Let's Grow an indispensable resource for prairie gardening and landscaping.

To pay by check, please e-mail eric@ericbergeson.com with your order and we will get back to you with your total.

Country Scribe Publishing
4177 County Highway 1
Fertile, MN 56540

Actual stock approx 3,000 (1/1/2024)
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Treasury of Old Souls

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A Treasury of Old Souls is a collection of engaging stories about Eric Bergeson's lifetime spent amongst a small town's aging population, including customers and employees at Bergeson Nursery.

Even as a young child, Eric found himself in friendships with people in their golden years. In mid-life, he realized that his own perspective on life, death and relationships had been powerfully shaped by these unique friendships.

Poignant, funny, yet gently instructional, Treasury is masterfully told in Eric's signature entertaining style as he traces the growth of his love and understanding of the elderly from his first day of kindergarten to recent adventures with his centenarian great aunt Olive.

To pay by check, please e-mail eric@ericbergeson.com with your order and we will get back to you with your total.

Country Scribe Publishing
4177 County Highway 1
Fertile, MN 56540

Actual stock approx 1,000 (1/1/2024)
We’ve shut down the mail order for now so I’ve put inventory amounts to 0 so orders cannot be placed.

Back on the Farm is a collection of columns written for small town newspapers in northwestern Minnesota and North Dakota. Ten categories filling 294 pages with Eric’s characteristic curmudgeonly wit and insightful commentary on small town living, baseball, the disappearing past and more.

“No one better conveys the rural experience than this guy—and living in a place called Boonville, I know rural when I read it.” —Bruce Anderson, publisher Anderson Valley Advertiser, Boonsville, CA (2009)

To pay by check, please e-mail eric@ericbergeson.com with your order and we will get back to you with your total.

Country Scribe Publishing
4177 County Highway 1
Fertile, MN 56540

Actual stock approx 125 (1/1/2024)
We’ve shut down the mail order for now so I’ve put inventory amounts to 0 so orders cannot be placed.

Back on the Farm is a collection of essays written for Eric’s weekly column at the time, Down on the Farm, run in small town newspapers in northwestern Minnesota and North Dakota. Written while Eric was running the Bergeson Nursery in Fertile, Minnesota, in this his third book, Eric focuses on ventures away from home, from travels to places as far-flung as London, Paris, Summerhaven, AZ, New York City or the skies over Greenland, down to seemingly simple trips to town for a meeting or a half-gallon of milk.

Seven categories fill 185 pages covering travel, world affairs, science and nature, and much more.

“Most sequels are flat-out disappointing. Not so with Off the Farm. If you enjoyed the wit and wisdom of Bergeson’s previous two books, these tales of Eric’s adventures are sure to delight. Relax, get comfortable, you’re about to travel Off the Farm.”
— Ross Pfund, Publisher, Norman County Index, Ada, MN (2003)

To pay by check, please e-mail eric@ericbergeson.com with your order and we will get back to you with your total.

Country Scribe Publishing
4177 County Highway 1
Fertile, MN 56540

Actual stock approx 22 (1/1/2024)
We’ve shut down the mail order for now so I’ve put inventory amounts to 0 so orders cannot be placed.

Still on the Farm, Eric Bergeson’s second book, is a collection of essays which originally appeared as newspaper columns in Minnesota and North Dakota, USA. Sometimes comic, sometimes outrageous, sometimes nostalgic, but always opinionated, Bergeson’s perspective is that of a person who grew up in a Minnesota small town, and continued to live and work there.

“Still on the Farm is a curl-up-on-the-couch-by-the-fire reader which will never fail to bring a chuckle, and impart a bit of wisdom, too. Bergeson’s entertaining writing style and wit will make this book a keepsake, to be enjoyed over ad over again.”
— Ross Pfund, Publisher, Norman County Index, Ada, MN (2001)

“For those who have never had the pleasure, Bergeson’s work offers a sometimes biting, sometimes reverent, but always humorous introduction to life in rural America.”
— Brent Sedo, Editor, REALM Magazine, Vancouver, B.C. (2001)

To pay by check, please e-mail eric@ericbergeson.com with your order and we will get back to you with your total.

Country Scribe Publishing
4177 County Highway 1
Fertile, MN 56540

(Actual Stock: Sm 8, M 20, XL 52, XXL 44) as of 1/1/2024.
We’ve shut down the mail order for now so I’ve put inventory amounts to 0 so orders cannot be placed.

(CLICK ON IMAGE to see the back.) Ever the entertainer, Eric followed through on a rogue idea to make a t-shirt after the style of big touring bands like the Rolling Stones or Willie Nelson. Although, Eric’s version is a bit toned down by comparison, making it a suitable wear up at the local small town cafe. The back of the t-shirt lists 54 North Dakota towns he spoke at. The South Dakota portion of the tour was born of the success of the ND tour after the t-shirts were already made.

They are all white and come in Small, Medium, Large, XL, and XXL.

Starting inventory (Nov 11, 2022) includes only 8 smalls.
There are 24 Mediums, 25 Large, 58 XLarge, and 48 XXLarge