Next Slow Food Seattle Books Meeting: May 12
Join us on May 12 for the next Slow Food Seattle Books!
Our May book club selection is Kurt Timmermeister's, Growing a Farmer: How I Learned to Live Off the Land.
"An intimate look at the life and livelihood of a modern-day farmer, as told by a former urbanite. A bona-fide city dweller, Kurt Timmermeister never intended to run his own dairy farm. When he purchased four acres of land on Vashon
Island, he was looking for an affordable home a ferry ride away from the restaurants he ran in Seattle. But as he continued to serve his customers frozen chicken breasts and packaged pork, he became aware of the connection between what he ate and where it came from: a hive of bees provided honey; a young cow could give fresh milk; an apple orchard allowed him to make vinegar.
Told in Timmermeister's plainspoken voice, Growing a Farmer details with honesty the initial stumbles and subsequent realities he had to face in his quest to establish a profitable farm for himself. Personal yet
practical, Growing a Farmer includes the specifics of making cheese, raising cows, and slaughtering pigs, and it will recast entirely the way we think about our relationship to the food we consume."
Join us! This will be an active, open conversation and all are welcome – please come even if you haven’t had a chance to finish the book! We’ll be meeting from 6-7:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 12. Roy Street Coffee and Tea is located at 700 Broadway East. Limited free parking is available in the lot below.
Please post questions as you're reading for Kurt in the comments here or on our Reading Discussion on Facebook. Kurt has generously agreed to answer them for us!
You can listen to an interview with Timmermeister on KUOW or the recent NPR interview with On Point/WBUR in Boston
Watch a video on Growing a Farmer
Learn more about Kurtwood Farms
RSVP to books@slowfoodseattle.org
Want to pick up a copy of Growing a Farmer? Here’s a list of local booksellers, also available via our Amazon store.