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An evening that should also be a delight, following in the wake of Claire Dederer, is Kurt Timmermeister. Here from his Vashon Island home and dairy farm, he is the author of Growing a Farmer: How I Learned to Live Off the Land (W.W. Norton), a most engaging, often amusing memoir of making an abandoned patch of land on Vashon into richly productive green acres. First an account of how he was drawn to this place—now twenty years ago—and then the idea of making a farm of it, all the while starting and then running a very successful restaurant (Café Septieme), Growing a Farmer then moves into a detailed chronicle of all the pieces and parts that go into making a farm function, specifically all the ways plants and animals are grown, and then made into food. Besides producing farmstead cheese (Dinah's Cheese), Kurtwood Farms (www.kurtwoodfarms.com) is also the scene of weekly dinners featuring food raised and made on the farm. "Timmermeister begins his enterprise with little farming know-how. As he cultivates his agrarian education (often through trial and error), he reflects on self-sufficiency, sustainability, and the industrialization of food production. While narrating over two decades of the farm's history, he describes such tasks as installing bees in a new hive, making apple cider, buying livestock, and slaughtering a pig ... Part memoir, part manual, this refreshingly candid account doesn't oversell its author or a political message." – Lisa Campbell, Library Journal.
