Brown Bag, Green Book #5: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Ben Epperson, Coordinator of Beardsley Community Farm, led a well-attended discussion about local food, based on the memoir Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is an important story for all of us," says Epperson, "especially here in East Tennessee where our growing season can last up to 10 months."
In Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life—vowing that, for one year, they’d only buy food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, It's an enthralling narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: you are what you eat.
About Ben Epperson
Ben Epperson studied Literary and Linguistic Theory (English) at the University of TN, Knoxville. In 2005 he moved with his partner, Elly, to the Czech Republic where he taught English. After they moved back to the States in 2007 to have their first child, a job working on Creekbed Farm sparked Mr. Epperson's interest in sustainable agriculture. When the family moved back to Knoxville and discovered Beardsley Community Farm he was electrified by the possibilies and opportunites he found there. "We'd like to see a small portion of Knoxville growing its own food again. We're here to build the buzz for sustainable urban agriculture, and it's working."
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