It started out with "In Defense of Food", a book that instructs you to "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." You will learn more than you ever wanted about commercial food. Especially corn. It's highly processed into a huge number of different products. Did you know that food today is less nutritious than it used to be? Crops grown on chemical fertilizers are less nutritious than crops grown with natural fertilizers such as animals manures and compost. It makes me look at my garden in a whole new way.

That book lead me to "The Omnivore's Dilemma." In this book, a man tries to trace back the origins of 3 meals. A fast food meal, a meal made from organic products from a whole foods store, and a meal made by himself with local food that he gathered and cooked himself. His adventures at a feed lot and the Polyface Farm are particularly interesting. Polyface Farm is a 100 acre "grass farm." Animals are extensively rotated through pastures to produce large amounts of beef, chicken and eggs.

Now I'm reading "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle." This book is about a family moving to a farm, and for the next year, they are eating only locally produced food. Mostly from their own garden and chickens, but also from other farms in the area.

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