02571cam a2200361 i 4500 513105006 TxAuBib 20160318120000.0 160318s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2011282011 9781416551607 1416551603 (OCoLC)555638400 BTCTA eng BTCTA YDXCP ZQP UUS CPL CDX ZAG AGL DLC BDX OSU OCLCO OCLCQ TxAuBib rda Kimball, Kristin. The dirty life : on farming, food, and love / Kristin Kimball. 1st Scribner hardcover ed. New York : Scribner, 2010. 276 pages ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Single, thirtysomething, working as a writer in New York City, Kristin Kimball was living life as an adventure. But she was beginning to feel a sense of longing for a family and for home. When she interviewed a dynamic young farmer, her world changed. Kristin knew nothing about growing vegetables, let alone raising pigs and cattle and driving horses. But on an impulse, smitten, if not yet in love, she shed her city self and moved to five hundred acres near Lake Champlain to start a new farm with him. The Dirty Life is the captivating chronicle of their first year on Essex Farm, from the cold North Country winter through the following harvest season - complete with their wedding in the loft of the barn. Kimball and her husband had a plan: to grow everything needed to feed a community. It was an ambitious idea, a bit romantic, and it worked. Every Friday evening, all year round, a hundred people travel to Essex Farm to pick up their weekly share of the "whole diet"--Beef, pork, chicken, milk, eggs, maple syrup, grains, flours, dried beans, herbs, fruits, and forty different vegetables - produced by the farm. The work is done by draft horses instead of tractors, and the fertility comes from compost. Kimball's vivid descriptions of landscape, food, cooking - and marriage - are irresistible.--DUST JACKET. 20160318. Kimball, Kristin. Essex Farm. Organic farming New York (State) Essex. Organic farmers New York (State) Biography. Farm life New York (State) Essex. Country life New York (State) Essex. Agriculture New York (State) Essex. Essex (N.Y) Social life and customs.