![]() ![]() With the same ignorance Kingsolver notes at the beginning of her book, I never realized that potatoes grow with stems and leaves. I didn't know why green peppers come into season before the red ones. I never knew how early greens like lettuce come up in the growing season, or why. ![]() No, she is not saying to do as they did, rather her message is "Here is what we did, and all that we learned." And so the reader learns in turn- about the vegetannual (seen here). Novelist Barbara Kingsolver (who has a graduate degree in biology, for the record) recognizes that most families do not have the means to do what hers did: to spend a year of self-sufficiency, growing all their food on their farm. But they've also invested that blank space of my ignorance with such wonder, and the very beginning of knowledge.Īnimal Vegetable Miracle is not so much a lifestyle guide. I've only ever read two other books as good, and they were Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, and so a triumverate now, of these books which have shown me how little I know about the world. I've got no qualms about saying that Animal Vegetable Miracle is one of the best books I've ever read about science and nature. ![]()
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