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4.1 AVERAGE
4.1 AVERAGE
I don't know if the turkey sex is the best part of this book or the fact that Kingsolver discovers she is on the top 100 most dangerous people to the nation list. Not just instructive but also highly entertaining.
Even the few pages I read were a slog. From the beginning, Kingsolver preaches things that I somewhat agree with. However, planting and harvesting my own food would be impossible in my yard and in Chicago winters. Farming your own food isn't necessarily the best option, as Kingsolver states. Anyway, I felt a sense of relief when I dropped this book back off at the library today!
Started reading this afternoon and can't put it down. This book makes me immediately want to clean out my pantry, bake several loaves of bread, and head to the local farmer's market! Will definitely be a life-changer for me.
Y’all. Barbara K can already do no wrong in my book, but this one: all the stars!!
She and her family take on a year of locavore eating and farming, and it pays dividends. This is essentially what I’d like the rest of my life to look like, but she spares no details about how hard the work is, the obstacles they faced, when things didn’t go as planned…and also the rewards they reaped.
Beautiful and informative for this fellow Appalachian!
She and her family take on a year of locavore eating and farming, and it pays dividends. This is essentially what I’d like the rest of my life to look like, but she spares no details about how hard the work is, the obstacles they faced, when things didn’t go as planned…and also the rewards they reaped.
Beautiful and informative for this fellow Appalachian!
READ THIS BOOK if you:
Eat food.
Have ever seen a farm.
Are inspired by being in touch with the universe, with your surroundings, with anything natural that makes you glow.
Eat food.
Have ever seen a farm.
Are inspired by being in touch with the universe, with your surroundings, with anything natural that makes you glow.
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
I'm on my second reading of this thought provoking and charming book. A great mix of info on our industrialized food production and yet balanced with the unique story of the family's adventure of living a year eating only locally grown foods! Makes me want to dig up my suburban lot and put in a garden!!!! At the very least I may join a CSA.
An interesting and helpful book to start your brain processing how to grow your own food and eat locally. A fair amount of environmental and cultural info thrown in too.
Eye opener. I had no idea our food system in America was so screwed up. I know, I shouldn't place all my trust in this book, but I think it comes from a great source. Someone uninvolved with politics but rather someone just trying to make a difference.
I have a greater desire to eat a good portion of my food from now on from either my own garden, a CSA, etc. Its so much better for you and doesn't waste energy...more produces it.
I have a greater desire to eat a good portion of my food from now on from either my own garden, a CSA, etc. Its so much better for you and doesn't waste energy...more produces it.
Like many Kingsolver fans, I bought this book and read it for awhile, put it down, picked it up more determined, only to put it down again. I wanted to love it, cheer her and her cause along, but there was one problem: This book was pretty boring. Long and draggy and clinical in lots of places. Beautiful and funny in others, but s-l-o-w, too. That said, I am glad to say now that I read it. I am thinking and shopping differently. I love the recipes (and those zucchini chocolate chip cookies were truly good!). I just wish someone had edited the heck out of it and let her storytelling shine through.