The Dirty Life chronicled Kimball’s move from New York City to 500 acres near Lake Champlain where she started a new farm with her partner, Mark. In Good Husbandry, she reveals what happened over the next five years at Essex Farm.
"[An] appealing memoir... Luckily for the reader, Kimball has a lusty appetite and her memoir is as much a celebration of food as it is of farming."
— The New York Times Book Review
Don’t let anyone tell you farming is boring. Farms are basically plot generating machines, taking in desire and adversity, mixing them with hopes and dreams, and spitting out story.
Mark and I took a walk to see the dairy herd yesterday, just as the sun was sinking. The air was moving down the sugarbush hill in currents, some carrying the heat of the day, and some the cool of the evening.
The forecast is hinting at the end of the sugaring season this week. Two more hard frosts, and then, who knows?
This morning, I woke up to a substantial glow on the eastern horizon instead of the black of winter. Get up, it said, and get at it! The great crescendo of spring is coming.
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