Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

hungry month 333 people I know. But information about food and farming is not very avail- able. Most of the people I know have n ...

20. Time Begins Years ago, when Lily was not quite four, we were spending one of those perfect mother- daughter mornings in the ...

time begins 335 length she asked, “Mama, did you get born, or are you one of the ones that evolved from the tree primates?” I’m ...

336 animal, vegetable, miracle watching the clock tick down the seconds till we could run out and buy Moon Pies? No. I’m sorry, ...

time begins 337 dead. Alaska was experiencing a farmers’ market boom, with the “Alaska Grown” logo showing up on cloth shopping ...

338 animal, vegetable, miracle But it’s also true what the strategists say about hearts and minds—you have to win them both. We ...

time begins 339 what we had done: a purification ritual, to cultivate health and gratitude. It sounds so much better than wackad ...

340 animal, vegetable, miracle neon purple ones, and I observe the unplugging of their light when I toss them in the basket. My ...

time begins 341 stalks like candles on a birthday cake. The groundhog that dug up some bulbs over the winter had taken a few yea ...

342 animal, vegetable, miracle the year right about where we’d weighed in, and hoped to remain— except for Lily, who had gained ...

time begins 343 cents per family member, per meal—probably less than I spent in the years when I qualified for food stamps. Of c ...

344 animal, vegetable, miracle / “I can’t exactly explain what we’re looking for,” I told our guests, feel- ing like a perfectly ...

time begins 345 even enough for the species to survive? These were still open questions, but they were headliner questions, insp ...

346 animal, vegetable, miracle last century we’ve learned that some of our favorite things like DDT and the propellants in aeros ...

time begins 347 Natural cycles persist in being predictable, despite all human caprice. It probably happened by the grace of bio ...

348 animal, vegetable, miracle Looking for Mr. Goodvegetable How small is a small farm? How nearby does local have to be? Is org ...

time begins 349 seventeen ingredients, all of which had to be transported to the process- ing plant. Who even knows how much fos ...

350 animal, vegetable, miracle Or maybe she was starting to sense what I hated to admit: that these eggs were dead. A hundred th ...

time begins 351 beeline for the poultry barn. When I stepped inside I thought I heard a new sound—a peeping sound. It was probab ...

352 animal, vegetable, miracle While she was distracted by the food, I reached underneath her breast feathers. I could feel a co ...