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Good husbandry : a memoir : growing food, love, and family on Essex Farm by Kimball, Kristin; Kimball, Kristin is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Good husbandry : a memoir : growing food, love, and family on Essex Farm about?
From the celebrated author of the beloved bestseller The Dirty Life , a "beguiling memoir about the simple life" ( Elle ), Kristin Kimball describes the delicious highs and sometimes excruciating lows of life on Essex Farm?a 500-acre farm that produces a full diet for a community of 250 people. The Dirty Life chronicled Kimball's move from New York City to 500 acres near Lake Champlain where she started a new farm with her partner, Mark. In Good Husbandry , she reveals what happened over the next five years at Essex Farm. Farming has many ups and downs, and the middle years were hard for the Kimballs. Mark got injured, the weather turned against them, and the farm faced financial pressures. Meanwhile, they had two small children to care for. How does one traverse the terrain of a maturing marriage and the transition from being a couple to being a family? How will the farm survive? What does a family need in order to be happy? Kristin had chosen Mark and farm life after having a good look around the world, with a fair understanding of what her choices meant. She knew she had traded the possibility of a steady paycheck, of wide open weekends and spontaneous vacations, for a life and
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- Author
- Kimball, Kristin; Kimball, Kristin
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781501111662
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Memoir, Agriculture, Biography
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