3/23/12
Kristin Kimball, Author Of 'Dirty Life' Farm & Food Book, To Speak At SLU
CANTON - Kristin Kimball, author of the 2010 best-selling memoir The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love will speak at St. Lawrence University on Thursday, April 5, at 8 p.m. in the Common Room of Sykes Residence Hall. Part of the University's Writers Series, the event is open to the public, free of charge.
Kimball is co-owner of Essex Farm, a year-round, draft-horse-powered community-supported agriculture provider near Essex, N.Y., in the central Lake Champlain Valley. The 500-acre farm produces beef, pork, chicken, eggs, milk, vegetables and grains for 170 people. Prior to farming, the Harvard University graduate worked as a freelance writer and editor, and as the assistant to a literary agent in New York City. Kimball writes about farming and food for publications that include O Magazine, Adirondack Life, Vogue and Gourmet Live.
