Book: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Pages: 432
This is my 213th read for the year
Amazon says:
America has long been a nation of farmers. But within the past several decades, our food supply has become dependent on transportation that burns fossil fuels and on increasingly fewer varieties of vegetables and animals. In a single generation, most Americans have lost their knowledge of agriculture and the natral processes that are a part of our food chain. But while food is cheap, we pay for it in other ways, including shorter life spans for our children, argues Barbara Kingsolver. Determined to integrate their food choices with their family values, Kingsolver and her family moved from suburban Arizon to a rural Appalachia, and embarked on an adventure of realigning their lives with the food chain. Part memoir, part journalistic invetigation, it follows the family through the first year of their experiment. They learn from other committed citizens who are trying to turn the tide in their communities, from organic farmers to members of the Slow Food movemnt who are doing their best to protect our foods against extinction and return us to a way of life that is better for our health, our wallets, and our environment.
This book was excellent. Barbara Kingsolver is a gifter writer, and her non-fiction books are no exception. I really enjoyed this look into her personal life and her personal quest to eat better, better the environment, and truly stick to her purpose - to eat only what she could get locally. The book will make you hungry and you will want to run out and buy seeds and start your own movement after you hear her passion. The whole family was on board - even her youngest.
I am so glad I found this book. I read if for a reading challenge, and it did not disappoint. I could not put it down.
Stars: 5
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