Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life is a non-fiction book by Barbara Kingsolver

detailing her family's attempt to eat only locally grown food for an entire year. The book revolves

around the concept of improving the family's diet by eating only foods that her family was able to

grow themselves. Kingsolver, along with her husband and daughters, start a farm in Virginia

where they grow and can different varieties of tomatoes, learn about rooster husbandry, make

cheese, and adjust to eating foods only when they are locally in season. The book contrasts this

with the ecological costs of growing food in factory farms, transporting it thousands of miles,

and adding chemical preservatives so it will not spoil.