{"product_id":"the-dirty-life-a-memoir-of-farming-food-and-love-9781416551614","title":"The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love","description":"\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKimball, Kristin:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Kristin Kimball is a farmer and a writer living in northern New York. Prior to farming, Kimball worked as a freelance writer, writing teacher, and as an assistant to a literary agent in New York City. A graduate of Harvard University and the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Dirty Life\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGood Husbandry\u003c\/i\u003e, she and her husband Mark have run Essex Farm since 2003, where they live with their two daughters.","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50619271872786,"sku":"9781416551614","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7702efb6-6c76-4501-8643-b2e41ec32db2.jpg?v=1732547327","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-dirty-life-a-memoir-of-farming-food-and-love-9781416551614","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}