Check out this new book!

[Megan Cook]

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver, beloved for her fiction, has written a nonfiction book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, a family memoir and an investigation of what we eat. 

"This is the story of a year in which we made every attempt to find ourselves animals and vegetables whose provenance we really knew," Kingsolver explains, "… and 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."

When asked why buying and eating locally grown food is important, she answered:
"The shorter the distance between your meal and its point of origin, the more you can know about it.   Locally grown is a designation that's incorruptible.  Buying from growers at small markets or through Community Supported Agriculture is really the only way for most of us to step away from a disordered food system.  Food from your neighborhood will likely be whole, unprocessed vegetables, fruits, or animal products grown on small, diversified farms by growers committed to the health of their land.  The food is good for you, and the money you spend on it stays in your community, helping to keep those nearby green spaces intact and strengthening your local food economy."

 

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Megan Cook
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