Welcome to Litsy!

I cannot say enough good about this book. So charming, so fun, so narrative, so warm, inviting and yet it challenges you as well. I look forward to coming back to this one!

First ripe tomato of the season 🍅♥️

This book covers a year of eating locally grown or sourced food, but I think a lot of people thought like me, Ok, but what happens in winter?!
Read if you‘re curious!

#midwintersolace #naturalitsy @AllDebooks @TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit @jenniferw88

This nonfiction book from Barbara Kingsolver will open your eyes to the impact of what you choose to eat. The Kingsolver family moves from Arizona to live on a family farm in Appalachia, and decide to live for a year on locally grown and produced food (with the exception of coffee and chocolate). Daughter Camille,a biology student at Duke, adds sidebars and recipes. Even husband Stephen Hopp adds an occasional sidebar. #bookbinge #includesrecipes

My book club book for April, this memoir of a year of eating locally inspired me to go back to making my own yogurt and today I made a strawberry sauce to flavor it with after strawberries are out of season. I grew up growing our own vegetables and eating beef raised by my grandfather so I should do better about conscious food choices, and Kingsolver has given me the nudge to move in that direction. Starting with strawberry sauce in my freezer.

#TemptingTitles #WithAVeggie

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My annual re-read of the tagged book is almost over! It reminds me of all the things that I love about the growing season. This photo is from the greenhouse in February and I can't believe how much our plants have grown since then!!

Thank you so much @dabbe for this fantastic #LLWBS swap package. It is all wonderful. The happy pill is amazing!!!!

Thank to @Bookgoil and @Deblovestoread for organizing this swap!

I love this author. She loves science and the environment and I love how funny and snarky she is. I started this in January. And it ended up as my September #DoubleSpin. It's going into my recipe book shelf. Because food. And recipes. ❤

@TheAromaofBooks

And thank you to @Soubhiville for sending this to me.

Today's train book is my September #DoubleSpin. Can someone please explain where exactly September went?

This smart lady is keeping me company while I get boosted. ❤💉

Playing with different homemade baking mixes while it snows outside ❤️ delicious #audiobaking

I‘m thrilled 8/9 books from this grid came rolling down from my botm stack! Yet, I tagged the non-botm because I‘m going to think about that book for a long time.

5* = Loved It, want to shout out loud about this book! I do/will own/keep a physical copy. A+
4*= I liked it, would love to discuss. Solid B
3*=Meh, no need to discuss. Average C
2*=Nope D
1*=DNF F

#AestheticallyMatched @Clwojick

Partly this book was what I expected - a confirmation of things I know & a pitch for lifestyle changes I believe in but haven‘t made yet, mixed with interesting new facts & ideas. And partly this book wasn‘t at all what I expected - it was funny! & it made me really nostalgic for the year I spent living on a working ecovillage where we actually produced about a third of our own food. All in all it was a great introduction to Barbara Kingsolver.

Kingsolver set out to be a farmer and locavore for a year in 2006, and she & her family learned many important lessons. She narrates the majority herself, going through the seasonal foods, chores, and joys each month brought. Her husband narrates his essays that provide a national perspective on their choices. Her older daughter gives meal planning tips and tips for college student locavores. My favorite was her 8-year-old daughter‘s egg business!

Thank you #AuthorAMonth & @Soubhiville for introducing me to Barbara Kingsolver! I gravitated to this memoir—an eye-opener on where our food comes from & how our food choices impact our environment. How cool is fiber artist Barbara, here with a carload of wool from her own sheep, to be spun into natural yarn at a solar-powered mill and then headed back to her to eventually use to knit some sweaters!
(Photo from Instagram: barbara.kingsolver)

Look what I got in the mail today!

Thank you so much @Soubhiville !
I love this #authoramonth challenge and I'm looking forward to diving into these new books.

My goodness this book was relevant and fascinating, and I‘d give up this challenge before a weekend ended! I was as equally interested in the Kingsolvers‘ living their year as locavores as I was in the science and regulations that inspired their journey. I bought bananas yesterday and did find myself wondering how many resources it took to get those 3 bananas to my countertop.

#AuthorAMonth #AAM January BarbaraKingsolver
#Pantone2022 Basil

#BookReport: Tagged was good for #AAM and encouraged my desire to use our local farmer markets more. OLS for #NYWD was fun. Things Fall Apart for #Booked2022 gave me the same bitter taste I get when reading stories of how white Christians came, saw and destroyed cultures.

Not sure about Snowflake but at 32% I need to commit or let it go and just started How the Word on audio.

I‘m caught up on my buddy reads so today‘s focus is on Louding.

#WishesandBlessings

#Miracles in my book stacks. The tagged book is a favorite foodie non-fiction & the other two are in my #TBR stack.📚

Slacking on reading thanks to this garden/jungle.
Canning salsa, pasta sauce, tomato peach chutney, and soon fig jam + freezing green beans and okra

Seed catalogs are my favorite part of winter. Lots of plans to be made in the next few weeks!

1) I was named after Lara in Dr. Zhivago. My mom liked how they said the name in the movie. 😊
2) I'm thankful that my vertigo is getting a bit better and I get to go visit my twin boys in a few days. 💙💙
#ThankfulThursday @Cosmos_Moon
@4thhouseontheleft @Arvena @ElizaMarie

This delightful little read kept me company for a lot of my canning this year. I didn‘t agree with all of Kingsolver‘s positions but the overall sentiment of this really resonated with me.

A couple of years ago, this book came to me in a postal book club at apparently the wrong time: I started it and pretty much immediately closed it. Since then, I‘ve read 4 Kingsolver novels and became a major fan, so this was my choice for a book about food for #ReadingWomen challenge.

I loved it. Yes, it‘s a bit pretentious at times, and for a lot of us, the steps that this family took to be locavores don‘t seem very realistic at first⬇️

2020 has been one giant dumpster fire after another but I have my family, my books, and my garden and I am extremely thankful for that more than ever 👨‍👩‍👧📚🌱

1. I think of this book every time I eat asparagus.
2. Back when I ate candy, I loved Reese's peanut butter eggs. My favorite part of any holiday was the Reese's peanut butter whatever.
3. Ugh! I like so many in different contexts! I'll go with forget-me-nots for this meme.
4. The walls. Previous owners were adventurous with paint.
#FriYAYIntro @4thhouseontheleft @howjessreads

A book on my TBR with a #greencover. #MagnificentMarch @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

Here's my bingo card for #nonfiction2020

I am no stranger to local food as my husband is an urban farmer, but there was a lot of interesting information in this book and of course Kingsolver's writing made for a great story too.
#nonfiction2020 #somethingyouaregratefulfor
#readingwomen2020 #abookaboutfood

December is when alllll the seed catalogs arrive + I get to dream of spring again! Today we narrow down the selections before we place our order in a few days. 🌱

Barbara Kingsolver‘s family decided to eat only the food that they would produce on their farm (with some exceptions such as coffee) and this one-year project is documented in this book. Some scientific facts are presented by her husband Steven and recipes by daughter Camille, which is nice complement to the whole story. Highly recommended - if you care about what is on your plate, and if you want more sustainable oriented life. #nFnov

Since I read Ducks, Newburyport few months ago I‘m craving for some cinnamon rolls. And here they are! I‘m very proud with my results. Tagged book is my pick for #NfNov and inspiration for today‘s #audiobacking Not all local ingredients, but made from scratch.

AyupAugust
The tagged memoir/foodie non-fiction book is a favorite #Animal titled book of mine, plus here‘s two more animal titles from my #TBR stack.
💚🦍🦓🦒🦏🐅🦜🐈🐓🐕🦌🦚🐿🐢🐖🐪🦝🐘🐊🐄🦙🦔🦉🦇🐇🦛🐆🦈🐂🦆🐍🦡🕊💚

Lots of audio booking while the garden is in high gear
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These tomatoes grew together from one flower- it's the first time I've seen it happen!

‘You are what you eat‘ the saying goes. This part memoir tells of the author and her family‘s green living. For one year, they pledge to eat only food that they either grow themselves or if they knew who did (except for coffee, purchasing only fair trade). Should be a good read for those who are interested in growing their own food and conscious of green eating.

#literaryluck #greenreads

Hour 36 challenge for #24in48: a food related book. I listened to this on audio several years ago. I appreciated that the whole family took part in the local eating experience, and also in the book writing. It opened my eyes to some food practices I really didn‘t know about. Just an all together great book!

@staci.reads #mybookmyfriend

Congratulations 👏🍾on your milestone and yes Litsy is a great place to be for friendly bookishness.

Most of my books are teachers but if I could call one a friend it would be the tagged book. It works as a friend because it informs, relaxes, fascinates, and pleases me to no end. I love this book.

🌟🌟🌟🌟 A great reflection on eating locally and seasonally, and conscious consumption- I learnt a lot from this!

1. Random
2. Ranch
3. Cook
4. Not everyday and usually a piece of fruit if I do.
5. Tagged book

#tellmetuesdsy

1. The tagged book is my favorite :)

2. Too many to name but I'd say my first love was pasta.

3. Grits. I'm from the south but I can't make myself love grits.

4. Thanksgiving.

5. A local place called Eli's.

#manicmonday

Not the prettiest looking bath bomb, but it smells like lemon Pez. 😍 I just started this book today. It‘s not one I would typically go for but it seems interesting so far, and the reviews for it are overwhelmingly positive. #bathandbook

This book was my #bookaboutnature choice for the #readharder challenge. I found it so interesting, and it made me want to think harder about how I spend my food budget. This black thumb will never be a grower of things, but I can choose who to buy from those who do.

So here's a question, do you consider #audiobook the same as reading? If you listen to something rather than physically sit down with it, does it still count in any #challenge you are participating in?

Absolutely one of my fave books! It‘s really made me reconsider food sources and we are now working toward gardening and raising our own chickens. And we eat local as much as we can. A great read!

I just started listening to the audiobook version and am liking it so far. Barbara Kingsolver lives near me, and I have enjoyed some of her fiction, so I have been wanting to read this nonfiction for a while. Side note: I saw her in a local restaurant once (that serves local food of course), and was star struck.

#scenesfromabook #needgroceries🥚🥗This prompt made me think of what happens when you need groceries but have committed to living a locavore lifestyle & eating food from local farms, produced within 100 miles of where you live, you grew yourself, or doing without your favorite candy or olive oil, or flour... I've taken the challenge a few times-for a week at a time-so I admire the spirit & dedication of these authors who take it on for a year.💚🥕

L - Lexicon (bizarre in all the right ways)
A - Animal, Vegetable, Mineral (there were a lot of choices!)
C - Curse of Jacob Tracy (my intro to Weird West)
E - El Deafo (beautiful graphic novel)
Y - You‘re Never Weird on the Internet (on audio!)

#booknames