Growing a farmer : how I learned to live off the land
(2011)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
630.92/TIMMERMEISTER,K
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : W. W. Norton, [2011]
©2011
©2011
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
335 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780393070859 (hardcover), 0393070859 (hardcover), 0393070859 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Before the farm -- Getting started -- Bees -- Fruit, apples, vinegar -- Sheep, goats, pastures and grazing -- Cows -- Dairying -- Raw milk -- Vegetables -- Fowl -- Pigs -- The slaughter -- Butchering -- The present-day farm -- The table
A former Seattle urbanite and restaurateur describes the realities of establishing a profitable farm on Vashon Island, his growing awareness of the relationship between food and its sources, and the specifics of making cheese, raising cows, and slaughtering pigs