Product Description

Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life?vowing that, for one year, they?d only buy food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is an enthralling narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat.

Called Home     1
Waiting for Asparagus: Late March     23
Springing Forward     43
Stalking the Vegetannual     63
Molly Mooching: April     70
The Birds and the Bees     86
Gratitude: May     100
Growing Trust: Mid-June     111
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: Late June     124
Eating Neighborly: Late June     148
Slow Food Nations: Late June     154
Zucchini Larceny: July     173
Life in a Red State: August     196
You Can't Run Away on Harvest Day: September     219
Where Fish Wear Crowns: September     242
Smashing Pumpkins: October     259
Celebration Days: November-December     277
What Do You Eat in January?     296
Hungry Month: February-March     315
Time Begins     334
Acknowledgments     353
References     355
Organizations     358
Sidebar Resources     364