Cheryl B. (shiva) reviewed on 5/16/2009

Helpful Score: 2

A really interesting perspective about food and how we get it. Barbara and her family agree to eat locally produced food for a year. So, she's willing to eat locally grown meat, but not bananas due to their impact on nature. It's nice she is living her ideal life. It's also good she likes to cook. I admire her experiment and wish her well. It takes a lot of planning and effort to eat only locally-produced foods.
I gave this book to my father who grew up on a farm in the Great Depression. He liked the writing style, if not the idealism. I liked how her daughter and husband took turns adding their thoughts.
I thought the curiousity about the chickens and turkeys on her land was interesting. Barbara does find a good balance between idealism and going over the top. Some of it is idealism. Some of it is practical. All of it is well written.

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