Full name: Growing a Farmer: How I Learned to Live Off the Land

Author: Kurt Timmermeister Year: 2010 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Food, Non Fiction, Memoirs Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780393070859 9780393341294 0393070859 0393341291

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. Similar books: Barnheart by Jenna Woginrich The Dirty Life by Kristin Kimball You Can Farm by Joel Salatin Folks, This Ain't Normal by Joel Salatin All Flesh Is Grass by Gene Logsdon When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Educated by Tara Westover Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls Happy, Happy, Happy by Phil Robertson Etched in Sand by Regina Calcaterra Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder Gifted Hands by Ben Carson The Girl with Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby Howard Stern Comes Again by Howard Stern Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman Lucky by Alice Sebold