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I got this on audio book from the library. I've finished half of the book and am giving up. It started out ok, but got so mind-numbingly boring. It could have been done in half the space. It's repetitive and preachy . If I hear one more thing about asparagus, I think I will gag. It gets very dry with all the information.

I do resent her saying organic eating doesn't cost that much more than regular food. First off, where I live, organic products are very few. I do understand the premise of spending a little more as an investment in health, but do I pay $3.86 for a gallon of milk, when we go thru 4 gallons a week, or can I really afford organic, which is $7.99 a gallon? I was excited when the local market advertised locally raised chickens, not even sure they are organic, don't believe they are certified but I guess as close to it as we'll get. A chicken in the grocery is
about $4. This chicken in the local market is $22! There was an organic store about an hour from me. It closed. It was charging $3 for one orange or one apple. Really? So, please don't preach to me saying organic doesn't cost that much more.

When all is said and done, America isn't going to change the way they do food. It's a sad fact. Feed lot animals will still be the norm and shipping produce from across the country will also not stop. So I feel their preaching about fossil fuels and transporting of goods was for nothing. It's easy to do what they did--they are wealthy.

As far as buying local, yes, I do that when possible. But go to a farmers' market in my area and you find a very limited selection, even in peak season. If you can find a farmer's market, which are few and far between. The fantasy way of eating proposed by the book is just too far off the mark from the reality of what's available in my area. I'm taking this audio book back to the library. My brain is numb already from listening to it.


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Animal Vegetable Miracle A Year of Food Life Barbara Kingsolver Camille Kingsolver Steven L Hopp 9780060852559 Books Reviews

I borrowed this book from the library initially, our CSA was having a February "book club" read, and this was the book. My husband and I have gardened to one extent or another since we married almost 40 years ago, and he grew up on a working farm. When our 30 something children were young we had 3,000 square feet under cultivation in vegetables to eat, freeze, can, sell to the local food co-op and give away.

Now we're on our second round of children. We are older, tired and we'd moved away from our fertile loamy soil to sand, acidity and bands of marauding white-tailed deer. We hardly gardened the past 3 years.

Then we found this incredible, life altering book. Actually, the book is not incredible. Barbara Kingsolver's lyrical prose, written with wisdom, humor and truth, was able to bring my husband and I back to the path that led to the local farmer's market, a local CSA (community sustainable agriculture)and gardens of our own again. Her words, and those of her daughter and husband, brought us back into the kitchen, they brought us back to the table, together again as family, to prepare and eat meals together, to talk, to be happy and to be relaxed with one another.

We were able to get the book on CD Animal, Vegetable, Miracle CD, and my husband and I listened to it every evening, enraptured with every chapter, every story, every success and every failure. We felt as though we were living through the Kingsolver family's year of local food and living with them. As the story progressed, so changed our family. We started baking bread again with this fun book Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day 100 New Recipes Featuring Whole Grains, Fruits, Vegetables, and Gluten-Free Ingredients ordering organic, locally grown and produced meats, poultry, vegetables and fruit from local growers through the West Michigan Food Co-Op and even going together with other friends to order organic grains and legumes in bulk through a local distributor.

I could write forever the ways this book has changed our family, really fundamentally changed the way we think about food, our local farmers, our earth and sustainability and our community. Much of what we learned, we knew already, but in disjointed news-bites and fragmented memories of our young married (gardening) life. "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle A Year of Food Life" gave us new facts, refreshed old ones and pulled all the information into a beautiful story book, a wonderful primer for living. Thank you to Barbara and her family for showing us the way.

Additional Note I've purchased copies of the book for my boss, my adult children, siblings and myself since that first copy I read was from the library!
This was a wonderful book that will change the way you look at food, how it is grown, processed, transported and satisfies our nutritional and emotional needs.
I have been a fan of Barbara Kingsolver for years. I am amazed that this book slipped under the radar for me 10 years ago. I am so glad I just newly discovered it just a month ago. I have a great grandfather whose family were multigenerational farmers on the outskirts of Rome for many years. They were one of many small farms who did and still do feed Rome with low intensity “hand made” food production. I am an urban architect in San Diego and am now trying to incorporate small scale urban farming to some of our new projects so the next generation can understand where there food comes from. These are net zero, affordable housing and projects from a fossil fuel standpoint. This book is a perfect resource for my projects.
Kingsolver invites us to her family's garden and table as they spend a year eating pretty much only what they or people they know in their area grow. I first read this years ago thanks to a book club suggestion, and I keep recommending it and buying more copies for friends who are interested in knowing more about sustainable living. The format works -- Kingsolver writes the main narrative, with her husband writing sidebars for facts and figures of the big picture of American agribusiness and her daughter writes recipe sidebars -- that are good, too! Chew on this book for a while, and you'll find yourself making different and more informed choices about your own food -- and, as Stephen assures us in one of his sidebars -- even one local meal a week for every American family would decrease fossil fuel use and increase local farmer -- and your own family's -- health.
I got this on audio book from the library. I've finished half of the book and am giving up. It started out ok, but got so mind-numbingly boring. It could have been done in half the space. It's repetitive and preachy . If I hear one more thing about asparagus, I think I will gag. It gets very dry with all the information.

I do resent her saying organic eating doesn't cost that much more than regular food. First off, where I live, organic products are very few. I do understand the premise of spending a little more as an investment in health, but do I pay $3.86 for a gallon of milk, when we go thru 4 gallons a week, or can I really afford organic, which is $7.99 a gallon? I was excited when the local market advertised locally raised chickens, not even sure they are organic, don't believe they are certified but I guess as close to it as we'll get. A chicken in the grocery is
about $4. This chicken in the local market is $22! There was an organic store about an hour from me. It closed. It was charging $3 for one orange or one apple. Really? So, please don't preach to me saying organic doesn't cost that much more.

When all is said and done, America isn't going to change the way they do food. It's a sad fact. Feed lot animals will still be the norm and shipping produce from across the country will also not stop. So I feel their preaching about fossil fuels and transporting of goods was for nothing. It's easy to do what they did--they are wealthy.

As far as buying local, yes, I do that when possible. But go to a farmers' market in my area and you find a very limited selection, even in peak season. If you can find a farmer's market, which are few and far between. The fantasy way of eating proposed by the book is just too far off the mark from the reality of what's available in my area. I'm taking this audio book back to the library. My brain is numb already from listening to it.