cities, it might as well be a space station where human sustenance is concerned.”Īnother calamity hovering on the horizon is the city’s shrinking clean water supply from non-renewable aquifers. All food sold and consumed in this desert city must be shipped in from somewhere else. Yet the one thing that Tucson could not provide its residents had become the most critical reason for Kingsolver’s decision to leave: Tucson does not grow its own food.

Kingsolver’s exodus from one of the fastest growing cities in America, with its burgeoning cultural, educational and technological attractions, may have seemed odd timing for adults with successful professional careers. This farm had served as the family’s annual summer destination-and gardening oasis-for a decade before their final move. Although a resident of Tucson for the past 25 years, Kingsolver had grown up in rural Kentucky, just over the state line from the 40 acres of orchards and fields with barn and 100-year-old farmhouse in Virginia that her husband had owned for 20 years. In 2004 novelist Barbara Kingsolver, her husband Steven Hopp, and children Camille and Lily moved from Tucson, Arizona to a farm in southwestern Virginia. Nourishing Traditional Diets with Sally Fallon MorellĪnimal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life.

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