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Barbara Kingsolver03 July 2007
Barbara Kinsolver
Author Barbara Kingsolver does her bit for sustainable farming.

 Barbara Kingsolver is best known for her novel, The Poisonwood Bible, which follows a Baptist missionary and his family to the Belgian Congo. The family take with them seeds from home, but they fail on Africa’s poor soil. Barbara Kingsolver was hoping for a better outcome when she took her husband and two daughters from their home in Tucson, Arizona to rural Appalachia, where for a whole year they lived only on food they had grown themselves, or bought from local suppliers. Barbara talks to Miriam about her new book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle which is the record of that first step in the Kingsolver family’s quest to play their part in environmentally sustainable food production.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating by Barbara Kingsolver is published by Faber ISBN-10-0571233562
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