Wallace Stegner Lecture Series: Kristin Kimball, "The Dirty Life"

Kristin Kimball, The Dirty Life On Farming, Food and Love

 Bonus lecture for Stegner and Patron subscribers: (see website)

Single, 30-something Kristin Kimball was living life as an adventure in New York City. But when the Harvard-educated writer interviewed a dynamic young farmer, her world changed. Smitten, not yet in love, she shed her city self and moved to 500 acres near Lake Champlain to start a new farm with him. The Dirty Life is the captivating chronicle of the couple’s first year on Essex Farm, their year-round, draft horse-powered CSA providing a full diet for more than 100 members. Kimball discovers the wrenching pleasures of physical work, learns good food is at the center of a good life, falls deeply in love, and finally finds the home, family and community she craved. Her vivid descriptions of landscape, food, cooking—and marriage—are irresistible.