Christine, who lives in New York, is a travel writer who travels around the world. During an interview, she met farmer Mark and was deeply attracted by Mark and his lifestyle. She decided to give up everything in the city and settled down with Mark on the Esther Farm.
This book is a vivid account of Christine Kimball and Mark's first years at Ethel Farm. From winter to spring, from summer to autumn, they breathed life into the farm bit by bit, and finally ended with the hilarious wedding of the two in the barn loft during the harvest season in the following autumn. Kimball wrote the most authentic, touching and profound connections between people, people and food, and people and the land with meticulous poetic, humorous and vivid writing.
At the same time, it is also a journey of growth and transformation for a woman. She was full of enthusiasm from the beginning, experienced anxiety, doubt and even panic, and gradually became determined. Today, she has deep roots in the land and has lived on the farm with Mark for 14 years.
Reader comments
Learn life and peace from the land, use your hands and feet to measure every inch of her skin, people shed sweat, plant hope, constantly pull weeds and water in summer, make wishes to the horizon where the sun is about to rise several dawns before, resist frost, death, and decay, and then nature will give you gifts. What you harvest from the land you work for is not just gratifying crops. There are also the fruits of friendship and family affection. Perhaps the happiest thing for such farmers is not to sell fruits in batches, but to drink their own wine and eat their own food on a cold night in winter when there is nothing to do. The air of the fireplace is warm, talking and laughing with friends, or exchanging a kiss with their lover.
In a process of searching for the essence of life, everyone will get different answers. All the pursuits that have crossed thousands of mountains and rivers and experienced hundreds of twists and turns will eventually lead to two destinations: harmony and reconciliation. With nature, with yourself, and with all life around you.
Really good
Very real rural America
Tell about your life as a person full of kindness.
Learn life and peace from the land, use your hands and feet to measure every inch of her skin, people shed sweat, plant hope, constantly pull weeds and water in summer, make wishes to the horizon where the sun is about to rise several dawns before, resist frost, death, and decay, and then nature will give you gifts. What you harvest from the land you work for is not just gratifying crops. There are also the fruits of friendship and family affection. Perhaps the happiest thing for such farmers is not to sell fruits in batches, but to drink their own wine and eat their own food on a cold night in winter when there is nothing to do. The air of the fireplace is warm, talking and laughing with friends, or exchanging a kiss with their lover.
In a process of searching for the essence of life, everyone will get different answers. All the pursuits that have crossed thousands of mountains and rivers and experienced hundreds of twists and turns will eventually lead to two destinations: harmony and reconciliation. With nature, with yourself, and with all life around you.
Really good
Very real rural America
Tell about your life as a person full of kindness.