You’re running late and don’t have time for breakfast so you grab an apple as you sprint out the door. Do you think about where that apple was grown, or how many miles it had to travel before getting into your hands? No, you eat the apple and get on with your day. In the book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle; Barbara Kingsolver explains in depth the effects of eating locally and shares her family's experience of their year-long commitment to living off the land while eating locally. In the first chapter Barara, Steven, Camille and Lily are currently living in Tucson, Arizona right outside of the city. Unhappy with the way that the natural resources are being allocated the family makes the decision to move. With the ambition to “reduce the miles-per-gallon quotient of [their] diet in a gas-oholic world” the family moves to Southern Appalachia to live on a farm where they will be able to use their land to feed their family.
