The Dirty Life

 The Dirty Life

Reviewed By  Kelcey Ellis       November 26, 2014

 

Author  Kristin Kimball

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ISBN:                 978-1-84627-327-8
Publisher:         Portobello Books
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Two words: Slow Food. If you want more how about, wholefood, organic, sustainable, CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) model of farming, Oh and a love story. These are the areas covered by author Kirstin Kirstall in the novel The Dirty Life, an account of her personal journey from city slicker to unconventional farmer and wife.

Picking up a husband, a new farm, with next to no money and a menagerie of animals, including draft horses, traditional farm equipment and vegetable seeds Kirstin sets out to prove you can do almost anything if you really want to achieve.

Prepare yourself for a love story of two people from completely different worlds working together against the odds and making their dream of an organic farm happen over the course of 12 months with little or no money.

Kirstin and her husband gave themselves a year to transform 500, badly neglected, acres in the corner of upstate New York into an organic community farm with the aim to eat only what they could grow, harvest, slaughter and preserve and in turn share this with a community via a CSA farming model. It truly is a different way to live and the exciting component is they achieve their dreams and are now successfully running their farm with the never ending busyness, heart ache and endless joy that life on a farm brings.

Such a personal journey yet shared so openly and honestly that at times you are desperately cheering from the sidelines for Kirstin and her husband to prevail over Mother Nature and live the life they had always envisaged. It is a true reflection of the sheer self believe and determination which people are capable of achieving.

The book is entertaining at the beginning and then the ongoing monotonous hard work just kicks in and there is no letup; such is the farmer’s life! But it  does make for an interesting read!

Biographies, Non Fiction