Becki reviewed on 10/19/2013

Barbara Kingsolver and her family move from the desert clime of Arizona to the wooded, fertile landscape of southern Appalachia. Here living in a fertile land, they resolve to spend a year eating locally. The beginning of their year of being locavores begins in March when they are waiting for the ground to thaw and the asparagus to grow. With a few exceptions they depend on food purchased from local farmers and sold at farmers' markets until they are able to eventually harvest from their own gardens.

This experiment includes not only locally grown fruits and vegetables, but home-grown animals as well. Even on their travels they try to eat with this locavore mindset and Kingsolver shares with the reader about locally grown foods from some other areas of the world as well.

Kingsolver takes the reader month by month through their experiment rounding out the story with facts and histories about plants and animals they learn about.

Kingsolver is a warm, humorous and intelligent wordsmith and I look forward to reading more of her books.

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