TY - BOOK AU - Timmermeister,Kurt TI - Growing a farmer: how I learned to live off the land SN - 0393070859 (hardcover) AV - S521.5.W5 T56 2011 PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - W. W. Norton KW - Farm life KW - Washington (State) KW - Vashon Island KW - Country life N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54512730 ER -