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The dirty life : a memoir of farming, food, and love
After interviewing a young farmer, writer Kristen Kimball gave up her urban lifestyle to begin a farm with her interviewee near Lake Champlain in northern New York.
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The country life of a city slicker
Kimball's father wasn't too pleased with his daughter's idea of \"marriage material\". In fact, he emphatically states that he didn't provide her with a good education so that she could go and marry a farmer. So did they ever come around to accepting him? \"It took them a while to see that my new life made me genuinely happy. I give them a lot of credit for accepting the choices I made, since they were choices they would have never made for themselves in a million years.\" It is interesting that Essex Farm makes an effort to not use fuel-powered vehicles, so they use draft horses for most of their work in the fields. Kimball says that even if she was living a different life, she'd still want to work a team of draft horses. She even goes as far as to say that she doesn't know if she'd feel as enthusiastic about farming if she had to spend all day on a tractor. Are they ever able to take holidays, something that any farmer or self-employed person struggles to do? \"We took three days in Montreal recently. Mark won't fly, it's too big of a carbon suck for him to feel okay about, so we are restricted in the places we can go together.\"
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Blood, sweat and dirt
The Kimballs' 500-acre farm (he took her last name when they married) is unusual because it provides not only veggies but fruit, grains, beans, meat (beef, pork, chicken), eggs, dairy (including cheese) and even maple syrup, 12 months of the year. The locals at first think she is a high-end Manhattan prostitute, since she starts off wearing her city clothes -- including black cashmere -- in the barn.
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As [Kristin Kimball]'s poetic account reveals, farming \"can wreck you as surely as any vice by the time you're fifty.\" Not long after their autumn wedding in a damp barn, the couple's relationship hits a serious blip. But all is not chilblains, dawn milking and the \"stink of pig.\" The memoir ends with the birth of the couple's first daughter, Jane, and a new start to their married life. As this one time East Village hipster concludes, change is \"never the way you'll think it'll be. Not as perfect as you hope or as scary as you fear\". Matt King, a Honolulu attorney, finds himself in deep water after his fun-loving wife, Joanie, falls into a coma following a boating accident. Left in sole charge of his two rebellious teenage daughters, he's forced to wake up to all kinds of new realities, including the fact that his wife was having an affair. Convinced of the need to track down Joanie's lover, he takes his girls on an idiosyncratic and deliciously tropical road trip. The subject matter may be heated but Hemmings avoids schmaltz at every turn. Even Joanie's death-bed scene is flooded with well-judged comedy. An engaging comic debut about a middle-aged man's attempts to navigate a far from scenic route home. As Matt acknowledges: \"My Polynesian ancestors would be disappointed in me, in all of us.\" The keenest-eyed, least self-absorbed, of literary travellers, [Colin Thubron] writes with a pin-point elegance and economy that directs your gaze to a place and its people, rather than to the author's foibles. In this pilgrimage to the sacred Mount Kailas in the Himalayas, he certainly doesn't join the pack of vagabond narcissists. But his trip to Tibet brings progress inwards as well as upwards, for his mother has died and he makes this trek \"on behalf of the dead\". His tales of seekers, refugees and mystics richly sketch the background of Tibetan history and Buddhist belief. Above all, his lean and supple prose draws meaning and moment from every encounter. \"To the pilgrims, there are no mute stones\" - and not to their ultra-observant companion.
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