334 pages
English language
Published Nov. 2, 2014 by Viking.
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
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Documents the author's efforts to eat food produced within ten miles of her home in Puget Sound, Washington, exposing the cause-and-effect consequences of a processed-foods diet while sharing the stories of the farmers she befriended who epitomized the sustainable lifestyle.
Subjects
- Social conditions
- Self-reliant living
- Local foods
- Community-supported agriculture
- Social history
Places
- Whidbey Island (Wash.)
- Washington (State)
- Whidbey Island