Growing a Farmer is longtime local Kurt Timmermeister’s elegantly crafted account of how he became a farmer and lived to tell the tale.

If you’ve read the book, or paid a visit to Kurtwood Farms on Vashon Island (where Timmermeister makes Dinah’s and Francesca’s cheeses), their charms were not likely lost on you.

And neither were they lost on another Seattle citizen, Dave Matthews, if this photo—and the look on Dave’s face—are any indication.