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This book is the story of the two love affairs that interrupted the trajectory of my life: one with farming—that dirty, concupiscent art—and the other with a complicated and exasperating farmer. Single, thirtysomething, working as a writer in New York City, Kristin Kimball was living life as an adventure. But she was beginning to feel a sense of longing for a family and for home. When she interviewed a dynamic young farmer, her world changed. Kristin knew nothing about growing vegetables, let alone raising pigs and cattle and driving horses. But on an impulse, smitten, if not yet in love, she shed her city self and moved to five hundred acres near Lake Champlain to start a new farm with him. The Dirty Life is the captivating chronicle of their first year on Essex Farm, from the cold North Country winter through the following harvest season—complete with their wedding in the loft of the barn. Kimball and her husband had a plan: to grow everything needed to feed a community. It was an ambitious idea, a bit romantic, and it worked. Every Friday evening, all year round, 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. The work is done by draft horses instead of tractors, and the fertility comes from compost. Kimball’s vivid descriptions of landscape, food, cooking—and marriage—are irresistible. "As much as you transform the land by farming," she writes, "farming transforms you." In her old life, Kimball would stay out until four a.m., wear heels, and carry a handbag. Now she wakes up at four, wears Carhartts, and carries a pocket knife. At Essex Farm, she discovers the wrenching pleasures of physical work, learns that good food is at the center of a good life, falls deeply in love, and finally finds the engagement and commitment she craved in the form of a man, a small town, and a beautiful piece of land
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一个去乡下有机农场采访的女生，没先采访反倒成了义工，和大家一起料理农田里的蔬菜，甚至在十三年的素食以后客串了一把屠夫。而在采访结束回到城市以后，感受到的却是为生计奔波的无奈，无人可以洞察的孤独，欣欣然，一个又苦又累却有着充实感的田园向她招手呢！ 然而现实却是残酷的，一开始他们连可以立足的农场都没有。在漫长的等待之后终于有了自己的一片天地，从一个荒弃已久的农庄开始，他们一点一点在积累，有了一头奶牛，然后是两匹马，五只猪，一群鸡......为了消灭老鼠他们带来了猫，却被黄鼠狼咬死，真是难为了一直在城市生活的女主。 五年时间一晃就这么过去了，一个城市丽人变成了带娃的乡下农妇，然而她和她的Mike,矢志不渝，因为他们一起圆了一个梦，一个他们终于实现了的乌托邦！
评分4.5星，有机农场很诱人，但干活能把人累死。
评分我知道很辛苦啊但还是想有个农场当农民啊????????读完没被劝退反而更向往了。。。她的丈夫也是个人物，特别真诚、偏执、坚信自己的理念、不在意世俗的约束又充满热情。他俩在一起太好了吧！作者太勇敢了，也百折不挠，写得太流畅了真好读。我读了半本听了半本，作者自己读的，声音超好听，轻声细语地给你讲她们的经历。打算下个月听她的新书！
评分在早冬的周六上午和午后读完，阳光从拉开的百叶窗照进来有点点刺眼。即使在满是农田的大中部，生活依然是uprooted。幻想果然是廉价的。
评分今天看同学提到，才想起我也看过。 续集也看过，Good Husbandry.
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