Growing a farmer : how I learned to live off the land /
Timmermeister, Kurt.
Growing a farmer : how I learned to live off the land / Kurt Timmermeister. - 1st ed. - New York : W. W. Norton, c2011. - 335 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Before the farm -- Growing the farm -- 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.
0393070859 (hardcover) 9780393070859 (hardcover)
2010034825
Farm life--Washington (State)--Vashon Island.
Country life--Washington (State)--Vashon Island.
S521.5.W5 / T56 2011
S521.5.W2 / T56 2011
Growing a farmer : how I learned to live off the land / Kurt Timmermeister. - 1st ed. - New York : W. W. Norton, c2011. - 335 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Before the farm -- Growing the farm -- 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.
0393070859 (hardcover) 9780393070859 (hardcover)
2010034825
Farm life--Washington (State)--Vashon Island.
Country life--Washington (State)--Vashon Island.
S521.5.W5 / T56 2011
S521.5.W2 / T56 2011