Growing a Farmer: How I Learned to Live Off the Land
of Kurt Timmermeister
Description
A bona-fide city dweller, Kurt Timmermeister never intended to run his own dairy farm. When he purchased four acres of land on Vashon Island, he was looking for an affordable home a ferry ride away from the restaurants he ran in Seattle. But as he continued to serve his customers frozen chicken breasts and packaged pork, he became aware of the connection between what he ate and where it came from: a hive of bees provided honey; a young cow could give fresh milk; an apple orchard allowed him to make vinegar. Told in Timmermeister's plainspoken voice, Growing a Farmer details with honesty the initial stumbles and subsequent realities he had to face in his quest to establish a profitable farm for himself. Personal yet practical, Growing a Farmer includes the specifics of making cheese, raising cows, and slaughtering pigs, and it will recast entirely the way we think about our relationship to the food we consume.
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- Format Hardcover
- Pages 335 pages
- Publisher W. W. Norton Company
- Publication Date January 17th 2011
- First Publication 12/01/10
- Language English
- ISBN 9780393070859
- Edition Not informed
- Category Non-Fiction
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