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The Dirty Life : On Farming, Food, and Love by Kristin Kimball is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Dirty Life : On Farming, Food, and Love about?
"This book is the story of the two love affairs that interrupted the trajectory of my life: one with farming that dirty, concupiscent art and the other with a complicated and exasperating farmer."Single, thirtysomething, working as a writer in New York City, Kristin Kimball was living life as an adventure. But she was beginning to feel a sense of longing for a family and for home. When she interviewed a dynamic young farmer, her world changed. Kristin knew nothing about growing vegetables, let alone raising pigs and cattle and driving horses. But on an impulse, smitten, if not yet in love, she shed her city self and moved to five hundred acres near Lake Champlain to start a new farm with him. The Dirty Life is the captivating chronicle of their first year on Essex Farm, from the cold North Country winter through the following harvest season complete with their wedding in the loft of the barn.Kimball and her husband had a plan: to grow...
Who reads The Dirty Life : On Farming, Food, and Love?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Kristin Kimball
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781439187142
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Memoir, Agriculture, Biography
- Rating
- 4.04 / 5 (11,725 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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