“My Dad was sad that he saw us working so hard on something that was destined to fail.” — Kristin Kimball Dad Copy Share Image
“When we walked the mowed margins of the field in the evenings, a school of black crickets sprang ahead of us like… — Kristin Kimball Crickets Copy Share Image
“We drove out of New Paltz heading due north. Squeezed into my tiny hatchback, among our boxes and bags, were my dog,… — Kristin Kimball Animals Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as escape after all, only an exchange of one set of difficulties for another. It wasn't Mark… — Kristin Kimball Around the world Copy Share Image
“I was forced to confront my own prejudice. I had come to the farm with the unarticulated belief that concrete things were… — Kristin Kimball Dumb people Copy Share Image
“Cook things, eat them with other people. If you can tire your own bones while growing the beans, so much the better… — Kristin Kimball Beans Copy Share Image
“There's no better cure for snobbiness than a good a** kicking.” — Kristin Kimball Humor Copy Share Image
“Grow it right, and you feel insanely rich, no matter what you own.” — Kristin Kimball Grow Copy Share Image
“So there I was eating haute cuisine in a mobile home. He cooked for me as seduction, a courtship, so that I'd… — Kristin Kimball Love Copy Share Image
“Farming, I discovered, is a great and ongoing war. The farmers are continually fighting to keep nature behind the hedgerow, and nature… — Kristin Kimball Nature Copy Share Image
“...farming takes root in you and crowds out other endeavors, makes them seem paltry. Your acres become a world. And maybe you… — Kristin Kimball Time Copy Share Image
“I wasn't asking him to guarantee that we'd be rich, I just wanted him to assure me that we'd be solvent, that… — Kristin Kimball Worst thing Copy Share Image
“In his view, we were already a success, because we were doing something hard and it was something that mattered to us.… — Kristin Kimball Failure Copy Share Image
“Without me to struggle against, without the constant chaos of our first growing season, without the pressure of our impending wedding, he… — Kristin Kimball First time Copy Share Image
“But raw milk from a Jersey cow is a totally different substance from what I'd thought of as milk. If you do… — Kristin Kimball Milk Copy Share Image
“Maybe most important, farm food itself is totally different from what most people now think of as food: none of those colorful… — Kristin Kimball Food Copy Share Image
“A farm is a manipulative creature. There is no such thing as finished. Work comes in a stream and has no end.… — Kristin Kimball Blackmail Copy Share Image
“Sitting at the table, watching the cards being dealt, I heard a man say that the difference between an amateur and a… — Kristin Kimball Amateur Copy Share Image
“Mark came home late one frozen Sunday carrying a bag of small, silver fish. They were smelts, locally known as icefish. He’d… — Kristin Kimball Cooking Copy Share Image
