Former city-dweller Kurt Timmermeister describes the life and livelihood of a modern-day farmer. In Growing a Farmer: How I Learned to Live Off the Land he tells about his initial stumbles in his quest to establish a profitable farm near Seattle, and he shares the specifics of making cheese, raising cows, and slaughtering pigs, and it will entirely change the way we think about our relationship to the food we consume.
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Comments [11]
To those who readily surrender their paychecks at Whole Foods, what you had the opportunity to hear was the life of a small scale farmer. Why do you view one speaking to the practicality of farming, as distasteful? What the country needs is a true sense of hunger. Then, you city types would be volunteneering in droves to work the farm.
Oh boy, what a glib tone! I can just see his hand waving dismissively..eh duh.
What I like about Kurt's book which I took time to read before I interviewed him back in January is that he relates his experience warts and all. He does not try to romance it.
Here's link to my interview...
http://www.sergetheconcierge.com/2011/01/amazing-bees-big-on-cheese-growing-a-farmer-interview-with-kurt-timmermeister-.html
What I like about Kurt's book which I took time to read before I interviewed him back in January is that he relates his experience warts and all. He does not try to romance it.
Here's link to my interview...
http://www.sergetheconcierge.com/2011/01/amazing-bees-big-on-cheese-growing-a-farmer-interview-with-kurt-timmermeister-.html
Something repellently glib about his presentation. Eeew!
Can you taste the faux humility in the milk?
OK, so you didn't go organic--do you at least not put antibiotics in the animals' feed, to keep from raising resistant bacterial strains along w/the animals?
"Code of ethics." "Good stewardship." Keep 'em coming, Mr. lamb slaughterer!
The lambs were "beautifully slaughtered" and "intrinsically good"? You can taste the lavendar they eat? Sounds to me like you had the wrong "conversion" experience.
Dude, it's totally UN-beautiful to slaughter a lamb. Talk more about broccoli.
Thank you for telling this story! Can't wait to hear it!
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