The factory, founded in 1956, was a large state-owned enterprise that mainly produced pesticides it was shut down in 2006. This tract of land is the site of the former Suzhou Chemical Factory. The extreme pollution is a legacy of the land's former owner. In fact, the soil of the land is so severely polluted that without intensive detoxification, the land is not available for development. However, after learning about the land's "secret," they were scared away. A real estate company had considered building a high-end residential community there. Despite its prized location, few land developers have shown an interest in it. In the old section of Suzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province, a 40-hectare piece of land has been deserted for three years. “Kimball has a gift for throwing into high relief contemporary Americans’ disconnect between farm-life realities and city ambitions.DIRTY LAND: In Wangyuan Town of Yongning County, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, a piece of farm land is deserted due to pollution from a local pharmaceutical factory (XINHUA) “In this poignant, candid chronicle by season, Kimball writes how she and Mark infused new life into Essex Farm, and lost their hearts to it… (there was) no end to the dirty, hard, fiercely satisfying tasks, winningly depicted by Kimball.” A hearty, chromatic account of a meaningful accomplishment in farming." Throughout the book, the author ably describes the various trials and tribulations involved. "As Kimball chronicles that first year in supple prose, the farm takes on vivid form, with the frustrations balancing the satisfactions and the dark complementing the light. "In her beguiling memoir, Kimball describes the complex truth about the simple life in prose that is observant and lyrical, yet tempered by a farmer’s lack of sentimentality." “ given us a taste of a life that makes us appreciate the hard-won food we all eat and the sense of purpose and connection so many of us crave.” “Kimball’s memoir is heightened by the serious question at its heart-What modes of farming besides industrial agriculture are available to us, and how might we achieve them?-and by her intimate yet spacious prose, spiked with color and wonderful descriptions of food… you feel, in reading the book, as if she’s thrown open the big red doors on her barn and invited you in.” The New York Times Book Review, December 5, 2010 “ appealing memoir…Luckily for the reader, Kimball has a lusty appetite and her memoir is as much a celebration of food as it is of farming.” "Kimball is a graceful, luminous writer with an eye for detail… How lucky we are to be able to step into that world with no sweat. Jeannette Walls, author of The Glass Castle and Half Broke Horses With wisdom and humor, Kristin Kimball describes how she abandoned her career in New York City, leaving behind everything she thought was important for a hard, distinctly unglamorous existence that turns out to be the most fulfilling thing she’s ever done.” The Dirty Life is a delightful, tumultuous, and tender story of the author’s love affair with the man who becomes her husband and the farm they work together to restore. Bill McKibben, author Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet It's the voice of what comes next in this land, of the generation unleashed by Wendell Berry to do something really grand.” If you want to understand the heart and soul of the new/old movement towards local food, this is the book you need. “The Dirty Life is a wonderfully told tale of one of the most interesting farms in the country.
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