From the celebrated author of the beloved bestseller The Dirty Life, a “beguiling memoir about the easy life” (Elle), Kristin Kimball describes the delicious highs and sometimes excruciating lows of life on Essex Farm—a 500-acre farm that makes a full diet for any community of 250 people.

The Dirty Lifestyle chronicled Kimball’s move from NEW YORK to 500 acres near Lake Champlain where she started a fresh farm with her partner, Mark. In Good Husbandry, she shows what occurred over another about Good Husbandry: A Memoir five years at Essex Farm.

Farming has many fluctuations, and the middle years were hard for the Kimballs. Tag got injured, the elements switched against them, as well as the plantation faced financial stresses. Meanwhile, that they had two small children to look after. So how exactly does one traverse the terrain of the maturing marriage as well as the transition from being a few to being a family members? How will the plantation survive? What does a family want to become happy?

Kristin had particular Mark and farm existence after having an excellent look around the world, with a fair knowledge of what her options meant. She knew she had traded the possibility of a reliable paycheck, of wide open weekends and spontaneous holidays, for a lifestyle and function that was complicated but beautiful and fulfilling. So with grit and elegance and an excellent love of life, she thought we would dig in deeper.

Featuring some of the same local character types and appreciated animals first introduced in The Soiled Life, (Jet the farm pet dog, Delia the dairy cow, and the ones hardworking draft horses), plus a colorful cast of aspiring first-generation farmers who work at Essex Farm to obtain the skills they have to begin sustainable farms of their own, Good Husbandry is about animals and plants, farmers and food, others who live nearby, like and marriage, births and deaths, growth and abundance.