Blessing the Hands That Feed Us: What Eating Closer to Home Can Teach Us about Food, Community, and Our Place on Earth

by Vicki Robin

Book Overview

Taking the local food movement to heart, bestselling author and social innovator Vicki Robin pledged for one month to eat only food sourced within a 10-mile radius of her home on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound, Washington. Her sustainable diet not only brings to light society's unhealthy dependency on mass-produced, prepackaged foods but also helps her reconnect with her body and her environment. Like Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670025720
• ISBN13: 9780670025725
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Viking
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.5"