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For all my get back to the earth friends, check out the Books and Culture review of Think Globally, Eat Locally: Novelist Barbara Kingsolver and her family undertake a grand experiment.

Looks like a great book, maybe someone can drop a copy of it in the mail so I can turn to it after coming back from the Professional Recyclers of PA (PROP) Conference, where I'm intending to make contacts and go to seminars for ideas to increase recycling in Mt. Joy Township.  Here's part of the review: 

What's most distinctive about Kingsolver's book is that it is a family effort. Daughter Camille contributes her own college-age perspective and seasonal meal plans and recipes. Kingsolver's husband, Steven, an associate professor of environmental studies at Emory, provides hard facts in his sidebars, including oil use per year per citizen, food production and poverty, and the best way to find local farms that sell direct to consumers. One particularly good essay explains why buying from local U.S. farmers actually benefits rather than hurts farmers in developing countries.

Kingsolver stresses that her book is not a how-to aimed at getting readers growing and producing all their own food. Rather, her desire seems to be to promote greater understanding of our relationship with food, and of our food sources and food choices.

PS. As I prepare this post Theresa's picking carrots, lettuce, and tomatoes with Eden and Firas. The green beens didn't do so well this year and our strong crop of snow peas have finished producing. Don't think we'll plant radishes next year, they were a little hot for most of the family members :( Lots of squash and zucchini picked and more growing around the house, but we're still waiting on the pumpkins. Loved our digging into various backyard crops of our neighbors including: hull peas, strawberries, wineberries!  All the kids like collecting eggs at the chicken house . . . maybe someday we'll have some of our own roaming the back of 1834/1844, then again probably not.