Frugal and Energy Efficient Living

I read this book when it first came out, and I still remember a lot about it (and I still have the book for reference). I came to the conclusion that I was not cut from the same cloth as Kingsolver and her family, but it did change some of my habits. I now shop at my farmer's market whenever there is one here. I found someone who raises free-range chickens for eggs (and they are very reasonably priced because I was not willing to pay three times the price in a grocery store). I started to raise some of my own veggies here on my tiny city lot using containers.

What I do is no comparison to what they did, but every step in the right direction is progress.

The thing that hit me was the time that they chose to start this, which was very early in the growing year. And how she worried about starving in some parts of the year (although this did not happen). But it was a LOT of work for the whole family. I was impressed.