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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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