![]() ![]() ![]() If I had nothing to go on but her book, I'd expect us to be in the middle of a massive global heatwave and possibly eating sand at the moment. She is really, really, really worried about global warming. Barbara wants us to understand that the planet is in the process of actively dying because of how many people are eating lettuce out of season, and bananas at all. And that's definitely a focus of the book. In my memory, the focus of the book is entirely on the actual experience of spending a year eating locally, especially the food they were growing themselves. It's a weird book to reread, let me say that right off the bat. I hadn't reread it in the intervening years, though, and since I'm trying to get myself to read more print books, it seemed like a good place to start, and possibly get some inspiration for the upcoming growing season. whatever fraction of an acre we have." (1/3? 1/4? It's enough for some serious gardening, at any rate.) But it's the book that made me go, "if her family of 4 can almost completely feed themselves off 1 acre, we can at least manage more than the occasional salad with our. Or at least in starting us along that path-it's taken quite a while for us to get going properly, and we have a long distance yet to go before I'll be satisfied. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver was a pretty big factor in getting our family's vegetable garden from daydream to reality, 10 or so years ago. ![]()
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