Get Your Pitchfork On!: The Real Dirt on Country Living

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Kirsty Athens and her husband Michael always had visions to escape the city and get farming - and that's exactly what they did! Get Your Pitchfork on! is an amusing and informative guide to country life that draws upon real-life experience. It includes the basics of home, farm and hearth - covering everything from health care to schools to small town politics. The perfect companion for any urban professional who is dreaming of living off the land, but has reservations about how it would work.

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An entertaining and practical handbook that should be mandatory reading for urban dwellers considering a move to the country. - Rustik Magazine

A nice change from the standard how to, this book may be more of a how not to, but proves equally effective. - Indie Reader

Kristy Athens' observations hold plenty of joys and warnings for urbanites wanting to chuck it all or for those bluesy for the bucolic. - Publisher's Weekly

Author Bio

Kristy Athens and her husband Michael always had visions to get out of the city and get farming. And farm they did on the Washington side of the Columbia gorge. Get Your Pitchfork On! is both an amusing how-to from Kristy and hubby's hard-earned personal experiences.

Kristy Athens' nonfiction and short fiction have been published in a number of magazines, newspapers and literary journals, most recently High Desert Journal, Barely South Review and the anthology Mamas and Papas. In 2010, she was a writer-in-residence for the Eastern Oregon Writer-in-Residence program and Soapstone. Kristy has served on the boards of the Hood River County Cultural Trust, Independent Publishing Resource Center, and Northwest Writers. She has been a guest blogger for New Oregon Arts & Letters; editor of Columbia Gorge Magazine; and coordinator of the Columbia Center for the Arts Plein Air Writing Exhibition, and of Literary Arts' Oregon Book Awards and Oregon Literary Fellowships programs.

This is Kristy's first book.