Just finished reading Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver and her family. It was okay…had some interesting facts and stories, but a bit too Martha Stewart goes farmer for me. She along with her family left Tucson and the desert, to start a farm in Virginia and live off what they produce. If they couldn’t produce certain foods, they made a pact to not eat any foods that were not local, adhering to the now environmentally friendly, hip way of eating of a localvore. So, no bananas ever. No strawberries in December. No leafy greens in February. Admirable and difficult but some of the writing is a bit dumbed down. Her husband contributed small passages about sustainable agriculture and organic production, which i actually found more informative than Kingsoliver’s diary. A quick read and one that is interesting for all those soccer moms who want to “have a farm” in Africa…