Barbara Kingsolver calls February “Hungry Month” in her memoir Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. In the midst of winter, most of us would be dining on squash, root vegetables, and canned foods. Thanks (or no thanks) to globalization, we can buy bananas, peaches, and asparagus in February. Kingsolver felt that consuming foods produced and shipped from all over the world was not sustainable nor responsible.
From Left to Write book club members followed Kingsolver and her family as they tried their first year of living eating from their Virginia farm and locally sourced food. Visit our members to join in our lively discussion about the food we eat:
- Carrie from Making Lemonade shares what she’s learned about her food
- Michelle Lloyd of Mkokopelli longs to live on a farm
- Rebecca at Life Of An Army Wife is all squashed out
- Catherine from everyday epiphanies is reading along with her husband
- Marianne of Writer-Mommy is ready to try eating locally
- Alison Abbott at Green With Renvy compares eating in India to the US
- Brenda Bartella Peterson from Grit and Grace ponders fat bridesmaids
- Ariane Trelaun of The Force Expansive sees asparagus as a miracle vegetable
- Thien-Kim at Cup of Creativi-Tea shuffles her budget to join a CSA
- Michelle from Honest & Truly! wants to find organic meat in Chicago
- Neena of hooey!critic dreams of buying a farm
- Amy at Occupation: Mommy discovered she had a black thumb
- Alicia S from Titere Con Bonete ate from her father’s farm
- Janin Wise of Wise Ramblings has to wait until April to eat locally
- Eunice C. at Random Walk Down Mommy Street doesn’t want a Quadruple Bypass Burger
- Zen Mama Wannabe plans on eating seasonally available produce
- Michele Spring Fajeau from Alas, I digress is spending more time reading produce labels
- Hillary Chybinski of my scraps wants more in her garden
- Elaine at Connor and Helen Grow Up likes the idea of eating local
- Stacy from The Fabulous Miss. S is proud of how her family eats
- Bay of Queen Mother Blog is making small changes
- Jessica Claire at Crunchy-Chewy Mama eats to heal her body
- Julie from A Good Joe believes in moderation
- Cristie Ritz King of Real Life Wellness wants us to take back our food
- Lisa at Hannemaniacs started with her compost
- Nicki from Suddenly *Not So* Single Journey misses her garden
- Melanie of tales from the crib knows the way to a man’s heart is popcorn
- Leticia Barr at Tech Savvy Mama’s father gave her garden a makeover
- Brandi from Mama Knows It All is on the quest for crunch
- Rachel of A Little Each Day just made a big change
- Anna at Girl with Blog learned good things from the garden
- Kristin from Sandboxmoxie found fruit in the desert
- Robin Elton of simple.green.organic.happy. undertook her own eat local project
- Nicole Pelton at Not Just a Working Mom knew her mom was right
- Marlene Kelly from Bespoken is a rock and roll girl who wants to learn how to cook
- Heather of (cool) progeny plans a week’s worth of meal with local winter food finds
- Karen Sweitzer at A Magical Mommy was skeptical of her first garden
- Brittnee Henry has found a happy medium
Now that you’ve read From Left to Write members and Stonyfield’s YoGetters posts about Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, how are you making changes in how you eat? Join us next week as a Stonyfield expert answers questions about eating local and organic foods.
For this book club selection, From Left to Write is proud to partner with Stonyfield a company that offers certified organic yogurt, smoothies, milk and much more. Stonyfield advocates that healthy food can only come from a healthy planet and is engaged in educating people on eating healthy. Learn more about Stonyfield on their Facebook page.
Pssst. Today is the last day to enter our giveaway for the audiobook of The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta.
