The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love

by Kristin Kimball

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When Manhattan writer Kristin Kimball arrived to interview an organic farmer called Mark on a Pennsylvanian farm, she was wearing high heels and a crisp white shirt and had been vegetarian for thirteen years. That evening, she found herself helping him to slaughter a pig. By the next morning she was tucking into sizzling homemade sausages drizzled with warm maple syrup, and within a few months she'd given up her life in the city and moved with Mark, their combined savings, and a dozen chickens to a derelict farm in a remote corner of upstate New York. They gave themselves a year to transform 500 badly neglected acres into an organic community farm. Passionate, inspiring and gorgeously written, this is a story about falling in love with a man and with a different way to live, complete with runaway piglets and dew-fresh lettuce, sceptical locals and a wedding in a hayloft.
  • ISBN10 1416551603
  • ISBN13 9781416551607
  • Publish Date 12 October 2010
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Scribner Book Company
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 288
  • Language English