Animal. Vegetable, Miracle by Baraara Kingsolver
This is a year of food life. The author and her family moved to a place they owned in VA in the mountain area where they spent a year using only food, (mostly) that they grew, cooked on their own and bought from farmers markets in the area. They tried to buy only foodstuffs that didn’t have to be transported from other areas. She admitted to buying coffee beans and those boxes of Mac and Cheese that some of her kids would only eat. Even if you aren’t a foodie I think you would like this book. I did. I admit that one would have to have the time, the money and the land to do this. The food for the year cost less than buying the conventional way but I say the money because I think a working couple would not have time to do this, thus the money. They raised their own poultry, made their own cheese along with raising a garden.
I listened to this book on a CD. It was read by Kingsolver, her husband and daughter who also wrote parts of the book. It was her first non fiction book.