"I have long been interested as a teacher in the impact of nutrition on children, and I have been very involved in the food equity movement. Animal, Vegetable and Miracle was about how Barbara, her husband and her two daughters left their home in Arizona -- I believe it was Tucson -- and went to live on a farm that they had apparently inherited over years. And it had been quite run down; they had to go back and fix it up, and it was her family's year of literally as much as possible raising the food that the ate, meaning that they had to store it and keep it for other seasons when it was out of season, and that they made a firm commitment to eat as locally as possible.
When the author talks about why bananas are not considered a local food and the cost of getting the bananas here, I've taken that into consideration about how I eat and going to local farmers' markets. I liked how Barbara write about her -- both her enjoyment and her sadness at different aspects of living on a farm, so she took great joy in the gardening, and it was clear and evident from the richness of her writing.
I think this book is appropriate for anyone who has an interest in really going back to living a real life as opposed to a forced life of owning things because this book was about owning experiences. I would give the book five stars."
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