Bibliograph

Growing a farmer, how I learned to live off the land, Kurt Timmermeister

Type

Label

Growing a farmer, how I learned to live off the land, Kurt Timmermeister

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Growing a farmer

Oclc number

601105543

Responsibility statement

Kurt Timmermeister

Sub title

how I learned to live off the land

Summary

A former Seattle urbanite and restaurateur describes the realities of establishing a profitable farm on Vashon Island, his growing awareness of the relationship between food and its sources, and the specifics of making cheese, raising cows, and slaughtering pigs

Table Of Contents

Before the farm -- Getting started -- Bees -- Fruit, apples, vinegar -- Sheep, goats, pastures and grazing -- Cows -- Dairying -- Raw milk -- Vegetables -- Fowl -- Pigs -- The slaughter -- Butchering -- The present-day farm -- The table

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