![]() Kingsolver’s husband, Steven, also provides additional commentary and information on current food issues. She also provides recipes and seasonally appropriate meal plans. The family also allowed for some luxury “cheat” items, including coffee, hot chocolate and dried fruit. Although Kingsolver’s teenaged-daughter, Camille, was away at college for the majority of the year, the book includes occasional excerpts in which she shares her thoughts on the experience. ![]() Lily, is just eight, when the family underwent their year of living locally. ![]() If they can’t grow or raise it themselves they choose to buy it from someone local who does. This book differs from Plenty, in that it is a family undertaking. Kingsolver and her family use the land to grow vegetables and raise chickens and turkeys. Kingsolver and her family move from Arizona to a farmhouse in the southern Appalachians, with the goal of eating locally for a year. For those who have read Plenty (see our review here) this book will seem familiar. I had not finished listening to it before it was due back at the library and hadn’t attempted to finish it until now. I had first started listening to the audiobook version of this book, narrated by Kingsolver and her family several years ago. ![]() ![]() I knew author, Barbara Kingsolver, as a fiction writer, having previously read her book The Poisonwood Bible. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver ![]()
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