{"product_id":"9781416551614","title":"The Dirty Life : A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Dirty Life\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Kristin Kimball\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom a “graceful, luminous writer with an eye for detail” (\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e), this riveting memoir explores a year on a sustainable farm.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Dirty Life\u003c\/i\u003e is the captivating chronicle of the couple’s first year on Essex Farm, from the cold North Country winter through their harvest-season wedding in the loft of the barn.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eKristin and Mark’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 “whole diet”—beef, pork, chicken, milk, eggs, maple syrup, grains, flours, dried beans, herbs, fruits, and forty different vegetables—produced by the farm. In \u003ci\u003eThe Dirty Life, \u003c\/i\u003eKristin 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Dirty Life\u003c\/i\u003e is a delightful, tumultuous, and tender story of the author's love affair with the man who becomes her husband and the farm they work together to restore. With wisdom and humor, Kristin Kimball describes how she abandoned her career in New York City, leaving behind everything she thought was important for a hard, distinctly unglamorous existence that turns out to be the most fulfilling thing she’s ever done.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eJeannette Walls, author of \u003ci\u003eHalf Broke Horses\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Castle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Dirty Life\u003c\/i\u003e is a wonderfully told tale of one of the most interesting farms in the country. If you want to understand the heart and soul of the new\/old movement towards local food, this is the book you need. It's the voice of what comes next in this land, of the generation unleashed by Wendell Berry to do something really grand.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eBill McKibben, author \u003ci\u003eEaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The truest, most hilarious, and most affirming story of a beginning farmer that you could possibly find.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eBarbara Damrosch, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Kimball is a graceful, luminous writer with an eye for detail . . . How lucky we are to be able to step into that world with no sweat. I wished for a hundred pages more.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Kimball writes in vivid but unsentimental language, equal parts dirt and poetry.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBurlington Free Press\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In her beguiling memoir, Kimball describes the complex truth about the simple life in prose that is observant and lyrical, yet tempered by a farmer's lack of sentimentality.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eElle Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"As Kimball chronicles that first year in supple prose, the farm takes on vivid form, with the frustrations balancing the satisfactions and the dark complementing the light. Throughout the book, the author ably describes the various trials and tribulations involved... A hearty, chromatic account of a meaningful accomplishment in farming.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781416551614\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40973435044046,"sku":"9781416551614","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/O_cd92d368-c0c9-4c1f-b0ac-9f7cf6597fc7.jpg?v=1646606168","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781416551614","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}