Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. 'We wanted to live in a place that could feed us: where rain falls, crops grow, and drinking water bubbles up right out of the ground.' Barbara Kingsolver opens her home to us, as she and her family attempt a year of eating only local food, much of it from their own garden. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, and complete with original recipes, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle makes a passionate case for putting the kitchen back at the centre of family life, and diversified farms at the centre of our diet. Inspired by the flavours and culinary arts of a local culture, they explore farmers' markets and diversified organic farms at home and across the country, discovering a booming movement with devotees from all over America. Since its publication in 2007, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle has captivated readers with its blend of memoir and journalistic investigation. Their search leads them through a season of planting, pulling weeds, expanding their kitchen skills and harvesting their own animals. Believing that most of us have better options available, Kingsolver and her family set out to prove for themselves that a local diet is not just better for the economy and environment, but also better on the table. They find themselves eager to move away from the all too familiar scenario of most families: a refrigerator packed with processed, factory farmed foods transported long distances using non renewable fuels. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle follows the family through the first year of their experiment. She takes a biology teacher position at the local high school and lives with her old high school friend, Emelina. A woman named Cosima 'Codi' Noline returns to her hometown of Grace, Arizona to help her aging father, who is slowly losing his struggle with Alzheimer's disease. When Barbara Kingsolver and her family move from suburban Arizona to rural Appalachia, they take on a new challenge: to spend a year on a locally-produced diet, paying close attention to the provenance of all they consume. Animal Dreams is a 1990 novel by Barbara Kingsolver.

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