Timmermeister has truly done a fantastic job with this book. Throughout reading it, I felt as if you I was preparing for my own life journey in being an innate metropolitan man to transitioning into a farmer starting in northern California. An intriguing chapter that definitely pulled me in was the Pigs chapter. I had no idea that water is an essential key part of a pig's diet. I thought we were purposely wanting them to become fat all the time. Pigs on a diet? The other chapter that is similar to Pigs is Cows. I am always fascinated to know about the process in how to properly raise your own livestock. It is extremely tough as I have heard based off making sure to check on every single animal, for intending to solidifying that they are in their based shape possible. This is a challenge within itself. Not only that you have to make sure that all of your livestock are in the best shape possible, but you have to make sure that you don't drive yourself psychologically crazy with the process!
The most amazing part of this book is when you get to the chapter about learning about The Present-Day Farm and about The Table. During his chapter about The Present-Day Farm, Timmermeister starts to pull in his entire vision by bringing his experience and steps to a formatted consensus in how to raise a farm from scratch. This, in my opinion, is very incredible. It is not so easy to all of a sudden quit your job in the city, brush up your knowledge in attempting in being a farmer, and then pulling through and doing it. This is an amazing task to accomplish. As I drifted towards the end of the book with the chapter, The Table, I found it very interesting how when Timmermeister was talking about "Cookhouse Dinners" that they all came from his farm exclusively! If I would ever get to this stage as a farmer by being confident enough to sell my own produce and serve it in dinners and lunches, Kurt Timmermeister is clearly the one who taught me in how to grow myself into a great farmer.
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