Growing A Farmer - Part 2

Growing a Farmer – Part 2

If you have no interest in knowing how your meat you eat gets on to your plate, don’t read the second half of Growing a Farmer. The second half of the book is all bout the process that Kurt went through raising and slaughtering animals on the farm. The book details how the animals are slaughtered and how Kurt felt about doing it. He felt for the animals that he had to kill but he knew the importance of getting the product from the animals he needed. The book also goes on to discusses the animals Kurt brought into the farm. Kurt talks about how he raised chickens to use for eggs to bake and meat to cook with. Kurt, in the end of the book talks about the current state of the farm and discussed how cheese has been a key product for his far to sell. He talks about the weekly Sunday dinners he prepares and all the products that he uses are from Kurtwood Farms. Kurt is extremely proud of the farm he has built and the food he produces.

The second half of the book was a little hard to read compared to the first half because of the gruesome details of slaughtering the animals. Even though it was hard to read, I knew the importance of Kurt having slaughter the animals. The whole point of Kurt starting this farm was to know and be able to control the processing of the product. SO even though it was hard, properly slaughtering the animals was an important step. The thing that was cool about reading this book was seeing how willing Kurt was to try new things and even in failure to keep trying. He persevered through some struggle to eventually find a groove and find the things that worked on his farm.