We are so proud that Kristin Kimball is our inaugural Women, Land and Food podcast guest! A Harvard educated, freelance journalist-turned-Farmer for over 20 years, Kristin’s description of “The Dirty Life” and later, “Good Husbandry” allow us to live with her the joy, incredibly hard work, frenemy relationship with weather, and partnership with nature that it takes to provide an entire (full diet) grocery store-from-a-farm food source for about 200 people a year. Her insights into the realities, joys, normalcy and weirdness of being a farmer today inspire courage, incite joy and leave you encouraged to eat well, and go deeper to ask what it means to be fully nourished.
You know the feelings in your body when you eat a delicious meal…Your tastebuds relish the sensations of a flavorful dish, and your stomach is satisfyingly taut. We’re curious here at Women, Land, and Food: what makes a meal go beyond even that physiological bliss? As we welcome Kristin Kimball to our inaugural episode of Women, Land, and Food, we ask what defines nourishment beyond those sensations. We also discuss the harmonies and tensions of growing a farm and growing a family in tandem, the triumphs and struggles of farming to provide food for a whole community that commits to, and depends on you, and the pressures of competing with agro-industry that focuses on scale and specialization over the kind of diversity that leads to increased soil health and nutrition. Kristin shares candid readings from her books “The Dirty Life” and “Good Husbandry” and vividly brings to life the intensity of bringing food from dirt to the dining table. Listen with us how Kristin’s determination, skill and partnerships create a whole diet farm. Learn what it takes to navigate feeding herself, her family and workers, and her whole community, beyond food to eat, to being fully nourished.