Animal, vegetable, miracle : a year of food life / by Barbara Kingsolver, with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver.

Called Home -- Waiting for Asparagus: Late March -- Springing Forward -- Stalking the Vegetannual -- Molly Mooching: April -- The Birds and the Bees -- Gratitude: May -- Growing Trust: Mid-June -- Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: Late June -- Eating Neighborly: Late June -- Slow Food Nations: Late June -- Zucchini Larceny: July -- Life in a Red State: August -- You Can't Run Away on Harvest Day: September -- Where Fish Wear Crowns: September -- Smashing Pumpkins: October -- Celebration Days: November-December -- What Do You Eat in January? -- Hungry Month: February-March -- Time Begins.

When 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. "Our highest shopping goal was to get our food from so close to home, we'd know the person who grew it. Often that turned out to be ourselves as we learned to produce what we needed, starting with dirt, seeds, and enough knowledge to muddle through. Or starting with baby animals, and enough sense to refrain from naming them."--From publisher description.

"Hang on for the ride: With characteristic poetry and pluck, Barbara Kingsolver and her family sweep readers along on their journey away from the industrial-food pipeline to a rural life in which they vow to buy only food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Their good-humored search yields surprising discoveries about turkey sex life and overly zealous zucchini plants, en route to a food culture that's better for the neighborhood and also better on the table. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle makes a passionate case for putting the kitchen back at the center of family life and diversified farms at the center of the American diet."--BOOK JACKET.