The dirty life
Subtitle: a story of farming the land and falling in love
By: Kristin Kimball
Publisher: Portobello; Portobello Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781846273278
Subjects: Organic farmers; Farm life; Biography; Women farmers
Description: When Manhattan writer Kristin Kimball arrived to interview an organic farmer called Mark on a Pennsylvanian farm, she was wearing high heels and a crisp white shirt and had been vegetarian for thirteen years. That evening, she found herself helping him to slaughter a pig. By the next morning she was tucking into sizzling homemade sausages drizzled with warm maple syrup, and within a few months she'd given up her life in the city and moved with Mark, their combined savings, and a dozen chickens to a derelict farm in a remote corner of upstate New York. They gave themselves a year to transform 500 badly neglected acres into an organic community farm. Passionate, inspiring and gorgeously written, this is a story about falling in love with a man and with a different way to live, complete with runaway piglets and dew-fresh lettuce, sceptical locals and a wedding in a hayloft.