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

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From a “swish, luminous author with an eye fixed for element” (Minneapolis Megastar Tribune), this riveting memoir explores a 12 months on a sustainable farm.

When Kristin Kimball left New York Town to interview a dynamic younger farmer named Mark, her international modified. On an impulse, she shed her Town self and began a brand new farm with him on 5 hundred acres close to Lake Champlain. The Grimy Life is the charming chronicle of the couple’s first 12 months on Essex Farm, from the chilly North United states iciness thru their harvest-season wedding ceremony within the loft of the barn.

Kristin and Mark’s plan to develop the whole thing had to feed a neighborhood was once an bold concept, and a little romantic. It labored. Each Friday night time, all 12 months spherical, over 100 folks shuttle to Essex Farm to pick out up their weekly proportion of the “entire nutrition”—beef, beef, hen, milk, eggs, maple syrup, grains, flours, dried beans, herbs, culmination, and 40 other greens—produced through the farm. In The Grimy Existence, Kristin discovers the wrenching pleasures of bodily paintings, learns that just right meals is on the middle of a just right Existence, falls deeply in love, and after all reveals the engagement and dedication she craved within the type of a person, a small the city, and a wonderful piece of land.

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