![]() ![]() I felt for Kristin from the beginning, relating to her lack of experience but her drive to learn. and when she meets muddy, sincere, unassuming Mark, the pair fall into easy conversation. She’s just a woman tired of fighting the good fight in New York’s cutthroat journalism world. ![]() While Mark has extensive farming experience, Kristin does not. Kristin and her then-fiance, Mark, take over a rundown farm in Essex, New York, with the idea of creating a CSA ( community-supported agriculture) and living off the land. ![]() It’s hard to describe the immense satisfaction we get from a hard day’s work - far away from a computer. I don’t like to be sweaty or hot, basically the idea of slaving away all day in the sun pulling tubers from the ground isn’t appealing. Though surrounded by farms - the last vestiges of Maryland’s tobacco past - growing up, my knowledge of farming practices and experience with homegrown food is incredibly limited. I’m a suburban girl with no experience around animals or agriculture. Kristin Kimball’s transition from tenacious New Yorker to muddied farm wife is lovingly documented in The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love - and it almost made me want to get dirty myself. ![]()
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