Growing a farmer
Subtitle: how I learned to live off the land
By: Kurt Timmermeister
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780393070859
Subjects: Country life; Farm life
Description: A former Seattle urbanite and restaurateur describes the realities of establishing a profitable farm on Vashon Island, his growing awareness of the relationship between food and its sources, and the specifics of making cheese, raising cows, and slaughtering pigs.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Before the farm; title: Growing the farm; title: Bees; title: Fruit, apples, vinegar; title: Sheep, goats, pastures and grazing; title: Cows; title: Dairying; title: Raw milk; title: Vegetables; title: Fowl; title: Pigs; title: The slaughter; title: Butchering; title: The present-day farm; title: The table.