Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating

Barbara Kingsolver and her family leave suburban Arizona for rural Appalachia and try to eat only locally produced food for a year. They want to know where everything they consume comes from, often growing it themselves. The book follows their first year as they learn to produce food from dirt, seeds, and animals. They move away from processed, factory-farmed foods shipped long distances with nonrenewable fuels. Their search offers another way to eat and live and asks readers to value farms and the natural processes behind food.

Why You Should Read?

• Follow Barbara Kingsolver and her family through their first year of eating locally produced food.
• Discover how the family tries to learn where all the food they consume comes from.
• Learn how they attempt to produce what they need from dirt, seeds, and animals.
• Understand the family's wish to recover appreciation for farms and natural food production processes.