Kurt Timmermeister
Hardcover | Pages: 335 pages Rating: 3.69 | 938 Users | 139 Reviews
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| Title | : | Growing a Farmer: How I Learned to Live Off the Land |
| Author | : | Kurt Timmermeister |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 335 pages |
| Published | : | January 17th 2011 by W. W. Norton Company (first published December 1st 2010) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Food and Drink. Food. Autobiography. Memoir. Gardening. Science. Agriculture |
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A bona-fide city dweller, Kurt Timmermeister never intended to run his own dairy farm. When he purchased four acres of land on Vashon Island, he was looking for an affordable home a ferry ride away from the restaurants he ran in Seattle. But as he continued to serve his customers frozen chicken breasts and packaged pork, he became aware of the connection between what he ate and where it came from: a hive of bees provided honey; a young cow could give fresh milk; an apple orchard allowed him to make vinegar. Told in Timmermeister's plainspoken voice, Growing a Farmer details with honesty the initial stumbles and subsequent realities he had to face in his quest to establish a profitable farm for himself. Personal yet practical, Growing a Farmer includes the specifics of making cheese, raising cows, and slaughtering pigs, and it will recast entirely the way we think about our relationship to the food we consume.Details Books Concering Growing a Farmer: How I Learned to Live Off the Land
| ISBN: | 0393070859 (ISBN13: 9780393070859) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.kurtwoodfarms.com/ |
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Ratings: 3.69 From 938 Users | 139 ReviewsJudgment Of Books Growing a Farmer: How I Learned to Live Off the Land
This book is Timmermeister's account of his transition from a restauranteur who kind of plays around with producing his own food to a full-fledged, leaning-toward-self-sufficient farmer. He purposefully attempts to de-romanticize his story, even though it is clear that he began his journey as a starry-eyed city guy longing for the slower, stress-free bucolic life. Timmermeister takes a practical, rather than ideological, approach to food. He likes good food, and generally that means as fresh asI wanted to like this book but the author is clueless. Why do his bees die? He has no idea, nor does he care to find out. He states several times.... Im sure I could find the answer.... He just lets them die every year. Heres my guess. You take their honey and give them nothing to eat through the winter. How to keep deer from eating his trees? No clue... just keep replanting every year until there are enough. And my favorite right as I quit listening/reading... where do the vegetables come from?
I loved this story! Kurt Timmermeister's story of buying a land while completely clueless and growing from there was a neat process to follow. His writing was lovely, and I really enjoyed that he put a lot of his knowledge in the book as well.
I had very mixed feelings about this book. I enjoyed Timmermeister's writing style-- it had a very lulling, soothing tone to it. But it did tend to put me to sleep. So that might not be high praise.I found many of his stories of his farm to be absolutely fascinating, but so often he would come to the wrong conclusions from these experiences. For example, he talks at length about how he couldn't live in Eastern Washington, because the people there are hicks and would never accept him. (Sounds
I really wanted to like this and was enjoying it up until the point Chapter 3 where Kurt starts describing his beekeeping endeavors. Not knowing what youre doing/getting into with the bees is pretty common people get enthusiastic about becoming hobbyists and then things happen. And if Kurt had said that he still didnt know much about bees, I would have been fine with that, but he proceeds to educate his readers on what he does know and hes wrong about some very basic bee biology/life cycles
It was a relief to finish this book. What started as an interesting story of how a city dwelling restaurant owner began a small farm, turned in to a long-winded boring book.For the most part the author comes off as delusionally judgmental. According to Kurt anyone who takes honey from bees without caring for them is a "thief", but he isn't interested in finding out why his bees die every year. In fact he loves getting new hives each spring. (There is a bee crisis in the world but you are content
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