Growing a farmer : how I learned to live off the land / Kurt Timmermeister.
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TextPublication details: New York : W. W. Norton, c2011.Edition: 1st edDescription: 335 p. ; 22 cmISBN: - 0393070859 (hardcover)
- 9780393070859 (hardcover)
- S521.5.W5 T56 2011
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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.