Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

growing trust 113 truck, we picked all afternoon into dusk, till we were finding the fruits with our fingers instead of our eyes ...

114 animal, vegetable, miracle small family farm; the former was the small farm’s bottom dollar, until the bottom dropped out. I ...

growing trust 115 Likewise, the Seniors Farmers Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP) awards grants to forty states and numerous Indi ...

116 animal, vegetable, miracle arteries functional” and left the kids huffi ng and puffi ng (fashionably) in the dust. Nobody sh ...

growing trust 117 can educate consumers about a supply chain that’s as healthy or un- healthy as we choose to make it. That info ...

118 animal, vegetable, miracle municate the consumer value of their care, and how it benefi ts the neighborhood. This may seem l ...

growing trust 119 we took in the view of the creek valley below. Part of Paul’s work in dy- namic housing design is to encourage ...

120 animal, vegetable, miracle Her second greenhouse is heated, she said, but only in spring. As we approached that one, I peere ...

growing trust 121 She is more than just part of the community—she was a cofounder of the hugely successful Ashfield farmers’ mar ...

122 animal, vegetable, miracle But low price has its costs. In order to meet federal organic standards as cheaply as possible an ...

growing trust 123 care, is a commitment to more local food economies. It may not be possi- ble to prevent the corruption of codi ...

9 • SIX IMPOSSIBLE THINGS BEFORE BREAKFAST Late June When I was in college, living two states away from my family, I studied the ...

six impossible things before breakfast 125 plow? The answer, he says, is yes. Eternal is the right frame of mind. “When I’m out ...

126 animal, vegetable, miracle eighteen-year- olds crossing all lines of ethnicity, gender, geography, and class—turned up a com ...

six impossible things before breakfast 127 ised economic independence and worldly influence. But a devil of a bar- gain it has t ...

128 animal, vegetable, miracle tion from spouse and kids is an element of the equation. An obsession with spotless collars, iron ...

six impossible things before breakfast 129 thing from smoked eggplant to caramelized onions, fresh herbs, and spin- ach. Because ...

130 animal, vegetable, miracle also help trim off and keep off extra pounds, when that’s an issue—which it is, for some two- thi ...

six impossible things before breakfast 131 scratch just to see if we can. We’ve rolled out and cut our pasta, raised turkeys to ...

132 animal, vegetable, miracle their celebrity gurus. What would it take to convince us that an hour spent rendering up cheese i ...