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Good Husbandry
Good Husbandry: A Memoir | Kristin Kimball
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From the celebrated author of the beloved bestseller The Dirty Life, a beguiling memoir about the simple life (Elle), Kristin Kimball describes the delicious highs and sometimes excruciating lows of life on Essex Farma 500-acre farm that produces a full diet for a community of 250 people. The Dirty Life chronicled Kimballs move from New York City to 500 acres near Lake Champlain where she started a new farm with her partner, Mark. In Good Husbandry, she reveals what happened over the next five years at Essex Farm. Farming has many ups and downs, and the middle years were hard for the Kimballs. Mark got injured, the weather turned against them, and the farm faced financial pressures. Meanwhile, they had two small children to care for. How does one traverse the terrain of a maturing marriage and the transition from being a couple to being a family? How will the farm survive? What does a family need in order to be happy? Kristin had chosen Mark and farm life after having a good look around the world, with a fair understanding of what her choices meant. She knew she had traded the possibility of a steady paycheck, of wide open weekends and spontaneous vacations, for a life and work that was challenging but beautiful and fulfilling. So with grit and grace and a good sense of humor, she chose to dig in deeper. Featuring some of the same local characters and cherished animals first introduced in The Dirty Life, (Jet the farm dog, Delia the dairy cow, and those hardworking draft horses), plus a colorful cast of aspiring first-generation farmers who work at Essex Farm to acquire the skills they need to start sustainable farms of their own, Good Husbandry is about animals and plants, farmers and food, friends and neighbors, love and marriage, births and deaths, growth and abundance.
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Court7
Good Husbandry: A Memoir | Kristin Kimball
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Yes! Farming memoir! :)

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Wife
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I‘ve read many books about the experience of farming, but this is the one I‘ve been waiting for! I loved that Kristen was able to translate the beauty of farming, while still being truthful about the hardships and heartbreak. I also loved that she read the audiobook and did a wonderful job. A rare 4/5🥕s from me.

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Christine
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I can't get enough of books by women who do some version of farming, homesteading, and/or seasonal home cooking and then write very beautifully and wisely about it. This is the second Kristin Kimball book of that type that I‘ve read, and I loved it even more than the first. Her life is so interesting, but it‘s her writing that draws me in the most. (ADORED her narration of the audiobook.)

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Christine
Good Husbandry: A Memoir | Kristin Kimball
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February 1st is a gorgeous 76° day here. Our hammock may need a sign-up sheet. ☀️?

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kyraleseberg
Good Husbandry: A Memoir | Kristin Kimball
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I was shocked this arrived so quickly!! Looking forward to this new memoir from Kimball because I adored The Dirty Life!

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kyraleseberg
Good Husbandry: A Memoir | Kristin Kimball
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🎉 Really looking forward to this one!!

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