• Tuesday, August 7, 2007 - You are what you eat. Eating local foods.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

I highly recommend this book to anyone!  I bought it to take on my trip back east in order to pass some of the flying miles more quickly.  It's new on the market and covers one family's journey of eating only local foods.  They moved "back home" and decided to either grow what they eat or try to purchase it locally. 

Barbara Kingsolver has a wonderful writing style and if you've ever read any of her novels, this one is a bit different, coming direct from real life.  She includes lots of facts in it that will boggle your mind, including Monsanto's budget for prosecuting seed savers. 

Before reading this book I really wondered what she could possibly write about growing food that I could learn from, I mean I am a bonafide Woman of the Dirt, after all.  Well, she wrote about a lot of things that really opened my eyes!  Check it out!  It will open yours too.

LaVonne




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Posted by kissesmomof4
This book is on my to read list. I have been reading a lot about eating locally in the past few months.

Another book you might enjoy checking out is Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally by Alisa Smith and J.B. Mackinnon. If you shop at Borders the title they have it under says robust instead of raucous. This one is the same type of book, an account of one couples year of local eating in Vancouver. I am only a couple chapters in and I have enjoyed it very much. There are facts sprinkled in and some of the couple's thoughts are very provoking.
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Posted by harmonyhomestead
I'll be checking my library system for this!
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