Good Husbandry: A Memoir Audiobook (Free)

In the celebrated writer of the beloved bestseller The Dirty Life, a “beguiling memoir about the easy life” (Elle), Kristin Kimball describes the delicious highs and sometimes excruciating lows of life on Essex Farm—a 500-acre farm that makes a complete diet for a community of 250 people.

The Dirty Existence chronicled Kimball’s move from New York City to 500 acres close to Lake Champlain where she started a fresh farm with her partner, Mark. In Great Husbandry, she reveals what happened over the next about Good Husbandry: A Memoir five years at Essex Farm.

Farming has many fluctuations, and the middle years were hard for the Kimballs. Mark got injured, the elements transformed against them, and the farm faced financial pressures. Meanwhile, they had two small kids to care for. So how exactly does one traverse the ground of the maturing marriage as well as the changeover from being truly a few to being truly a family members? How will the plantation survive? What does a family want in order to be happy?

Kristin had particular Mark and farm lifestyle after having an excellent look around the world, with a good understanding of what her choices meant. She understood she had traded the chance of a reliable paycheck, of widely open weekends and spontaneous holidays, for a existence and work that was complicated but gorgeous and fulfilling. So with grit and elegance and a good sense of humor, she thought we would drill down in deeper.

Featuring a number of the same local characters and cherished animals first presented in The Dirty Life, (Jet the farm pet dog, Delia the dairy cow, and the ones hardworking draft horses), plus a colorful cast of aspiring first-generation farmers who just work at Essex Farm to obtain the skills they have to begin sustainable farms of their have, Good Husbandry is about animals and plant life, farmers and food, others who live nearby, love and marriage, births and deaths, growth and abundance.