![]() ![]() The work is done by draft horses instead of tractors, and the fertility comes from compost. Every Friday evening, all year round, 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. It was an ambitious idea, a bit romantic, and it worked. Kimball and her husband had a plan: to grow everything needed to feed a community. 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. ![]() 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. Kristin knew nothing about growing vegetables, let alone raising pigs and cattle and driving horses. When she interviewed a dynamic young farmer, her world changed. But she was beginning to feel a sense of longing for a family and for home. Single, thirty-something, and working as a writer in New York City, Kristin Kimball was living life as an adventure. ![]()
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