The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love

With Spring in the air, the itch to garden is strong! But until we can do so, take a peak at this memoir. 

The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love by Kristin Kimball is the story of a couple who took a chance on each other, and took a chance on creating a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm. Their farm is located in the northeastern part of the U.S. and is a 500 acre draft horse powered farm that provides a full diet for 200 people. This book is the story of their first year. Full of information about short season growing, butchering and trying to revitalize a farm that had not been farmed in years, Kimball makes us cheer them on as they go through their growing pains; both in their personal relationship and preparing the land.

This is definitely a book for those who always wanted to farm (in a non-concrete sorta way), and for those who are interested in CSA farming and eating organic.

If this title is checked out - try these similar farming and gardening titles:

This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader by Joan Dye Gussow

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver

The Quarter-acre Farm: How I Kept the Patio, Lost the Lawn,and Fed My Family for A Year by Spring  Warren

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