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Huh. To help you eat more local, farmers will come to your house and plant you a vegetable garden. Then they'll come back to tend to it and harvest it for you. Barbara Kingsolver on urban dwellers wanting to make a stronger connect to what they consume:
As a person of rural origin who has lived much of my life in rural places, I can’t tell you how joyful it makes me to hear that it’s trendy for people in Manhattan to own a part of a cow.
I'm about 15 pages from the end of Kingsolver's "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle," and it is just plain stellar. She writes so well that I'd pay good money to read her account of mopping her kitchen floor. The topic here, though, is a bit more gripping: a year she and her family spent on their Virginia farm growing and eating most of their own food. For me, it made the idea of eating local feel less clinical, more soulful -- and more achievable, even for a city gal like me. Highly recommended.
Jul. 22, '08
Barbara Kingsolver, farming, locavorism, urban life
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