Must, must read. Real live humans living a real life. In all my "emergency preparedness" dreams, I never hoped to find a book so inspiring...I had to stop in chapter 1 to blog:
Okay, I admit I have high hopes for this book. I love the humor and sarcasm of this author. It's so easy to get sucked in. I'm already trying to figure out where my water comes from, plotting out my garden and deliberating over free range chickens. Did you know that each food item in a typical US meal has traveled an average of 1,500 miles? Gross much.
So all I'm saying is, if you have the least bit of interest in educating your backwards, lazy consumer driven lives, we should sacrifice a few more thousand acres of forest lands and buy this paper back book...but be sure to walk to the book store.
Melissa you have to read this with me!!
"This is the story...of how our family was changed by our first year of deliberately eating food produced from the same place where we worked, went to school, loved our neighbors, drank the water, and breathed the air." ~Barbara Kingsolver
5 comments:
wow, i've missed out on a lot. Nice face lift on the blog. How fun to have your mom there to visit, mine is coming in two weeks. I too would like to be vegan, I'm still working on it though. I would like my family to eat healthier, so I'll have to try out some of those things and definately read that book--which reminds me our farmer's market is today in about an hour.
Wayne applauded your decision. He ate a hamburger on your behalf. Love you!
I'm putting this one on my list of summer reads.
I've heard about this book and I was meaning to read it, but you've convinced me to look it up on Amazon! Somethink to bring to back to earth after swooning over Twilight!
Oooh, I loved this book, but by the end I was a little intimidated. I am planning to try their tomato sauce recipe this fall when I can with my mom. I'm not going to tell how much gas it will take to drive to her house though.
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