Good husbandry : growing food, love, and family on Essex farm
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- ISBN: 1501111655
- ISBN: 9781501111655
- ISBN: 1501111531
- ISBN: 9781501111532
- ISBN: 9781501111532 : HRD
- ISBN: 9781501111662 (ebook)
- ISBN: 1501111531 : HRD
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Physical Description:
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print - Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2019.
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Subject: | Farmers New York (State) North Country Biography Farm life New York (State) North Country Essex Farm. Kimball, Kristin |
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- 6 of 6 copies available at Bibliomation.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Rowayton Library. (Show)
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- 0 current holds with 6 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Rowayton Library | BIO KIMBALL (Text) | 33625122827749 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
Ridgefield Library | 630.9747 KIM (Text) | 34010145843271 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Salem Free Public Library | B KIMBALL (Text) | 33640143760928 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Scoville Memorial Library - Salisbury | BIO KIMBALL (Text) | 37538146256355 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
Seymour Public Library | 630.9747 KIMBALL (Text) | 34043146277934 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Tolland Public Library | 630.9747 KIM (Text) | 34051147615978 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Good Husbandry : A Memoir
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Good Husbandry : A Memoir
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 work that was challenging but beautiful and fulfilling. So with grit and grace and a good sense of humor, she chose to dig in deeper. Featuring some of the same local characters and cherished animals first introduced in The Dirty Life , (Jet the farm dog, Delia the dairy cow, and those hardworking draft horses), plus a colorful cast of aspiring first-generation farmers who work at Essex Farm to acquire the skills they need to start sustainable farms of their own, Good Husbandry is about animals and plants, farmers and food, friends and neighbors, love and marriage, births and deaths, growth and abundance.