Every Friday evening, all year round, over a hundred people travel to Essex Farm to pick up their weekly share of the "whole diet"-beef, pork, chicken, milk, eggs, maple syrup, grains, flours, dried beans, herbs, fruits, and forty different vegetables-produced by the farm. Kristin and Mark's plan to grow everything needed to feed a community was an ambitious idea, and a bit romantic. The Dirty Life is the captivating chronicle of the couple's first year on Essex Farm, from the cold North Country winter through their harvest-season wedding in the loft of the barn.
On an impulse, she shed her city self and started a new farm with him on five hundred acres near Lake Champlain. When Kristin Kimball left New York City to interview a dynamic young farmer named Mark, her world changed. From a "graceful, luminous writer with an eye for detail" ( Minneapolis Star Tribune), this riveting memoir explores a year on a sustainable farm.
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