The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love

The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love

From a â€œgraceful, luminous writer with an eye for detailâ€ (Minneapolis Star Tribune), this riveting memoir explores a year on a sustainable farm.

When Kristin Kimball left New York City to interview a dynamic young farmer named Mark, her world changed. On an impulse, she shed her city self and started a new farm with him on five hundred acres near Lake Champlain. The Dirty Life is the captivating chronicle of the coupleâ€™s first year on Essex Farm, from the cold North Country winter through their harvest-season wedding in the loft of the barn.

Kristin and Markâ€™s plan to grow everything needed to feed a community was an ambitious idea, and a bit romantic. It worked. Every Friday evening, all year round, over a hundred people travel to Essex Farm to pick up their weekly share of the â€œwhole dietâ€â€”beef, pork, chicken, milk, eggs, maple syrup, grains, flours, dried beans, herbs, fruits, and forty different vegetablesâ€”produced by the farm. In The Dirty Life, Kristin discovers the wrenching pleasures of physical work, learns that good food is at the center of a good life, falls deeply in love, and finally finds the engagement and commitment she craved in the form of a man, a small town, and a beautiful piece of land.
Country USA
Brand Scribner
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 43171-601752
ReleaseDate 2011-04-12
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781416551614

Country	USA
Brand	Scribner
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	43171-601752
ReleaseDate	2011-04-12
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781416551614

The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love

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