This book was organic, locally grown, sustainably farmed AWESOMESAUCE! I think it changed my life before I was even through the prologue -- instant convert. I listened to much of it while cooking seasonal, locally grown foods that had never been on my radar before -- chard, kale, beets -- and I've p...
March 9: I am only three discs into this book (and I have to admit I wish the main part weren't read by Barbara Kingsolver-though I like her daughter and Steven Hopp reading their parts just fine-because she has some very distracting pronunciations and I am not a fan of her pacing. However, this is ...
My true GR rating: 0/5 starsTo call this book a trifling piece of trash is, in my opinion, giving it too much credit. This book could have been excellent given the premise of the book. Instead what we get is the author, her husband and her daughter, bloviating at how much America and Americans suck....
This book is not fast-paced by any means, still I could not stop reading this account of a family that pledges to live off the land for a whole year. Even though I will probably NEVER do this, I gain a lot of knowledge on things that I do plan to try: gardening, canning and long term storage of foo...
This is the story of a family who decides to leave city life to move to their 100 acre property in the country where they will live off the land and eat locally in order to do their part to save fossil fuels and the planet. Sounds like a lovely fantasy. If only an ancestor of mine had left me a fa...
Well, this book has thoroughly annoyed me.I couldn't make it through the snooze-inducing first chapters without putting the book down a number of times, so I decided to borrow the audio version from the library.Currently on CD 10, I'm finding Kingsolver and her family more and more self-righteous an...
This book spoke to me! I am interested in the local food movement and the environment and healthy eating and this book provided intelligent information in a very readable format. Great recipes, terrific and funny stories, and insightful debate on eating locally and off the land.
I knew I'd never get through this in print, so I went for the talking book. Read by all three authors, but mostly BK.There were many good reminders and important new things here for me to consider. Even if you think your carbon footprint is small, you're consuming a lot more oil than you think you...
I have always been interested in growing things and farming because some of the earlier generations of my family were farmers. I learned much from this book about potatoes and how they grow a green leafy plant when they are ready to pull. I also learned that pineapples don't grow on trees... I didn'...
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