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Also by Kurt Timmermeister:

Growing A Farmer, January 2011
Hardcover

Growing A Farmer
Kurt Timmermeister

How I Learned to Live Off the Land

W.W. Norton
January 2011
On Sale: January 17, 2011
336 pages
ISBN: 0393070859
EAN: 9780393070859
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir | Non-Fiction Cooking / Food

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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