I just finished Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. Barbara writes a lot of fiction but this book is a nonfiction about how her and her husband wanted to change their life and how they eat. They left their busy city life to move to the country where they raised their own food or bought only locally grown food. What started as a one year quest turned into something bigger. In the process they found the passion to save long forgotten seeds and started Seed Savers Exchange. The passion she has for the finding and saving long forgotten seeds of flowers and vegetables is just inspiring.
It definitely made me more aware of the difference between heirloom and hybrid. I'm going to use a lot more heirloom vegetables this summer. I'm not so sure about the saving seeds part...one step at a time. But I loved the book!
Here is the book description from Amazon:
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.
To check her out go to:
www.kingsolver.com
