This book is wonderful food for thought. The writers are not self righteous and there is no guilt involved in this enlightening possibility for positive change.

It's increasingly obvious that something about the way we eat isn't right. This book demonstrates how one couple's strange and rather drastic idea, to eat only local foods from within a 100-mile radius of their southern BC home, can spark ideas all around the world. The writing style is surprisingly easy to read and absorbing, their ideas aren't always well thought out, and the drawbacks are highlighted just as clearly as the successes. This isn't a book encouraging you to undertake the challenge - it's about changing the way you think about food, just a little bit.

Written in a personal and honest fashion, you can follow along with their triumphs and discoveries, as well as commiserate at their abject failures. It's all a grand experiment, one that makes you think harder about farmer's markets and apple picking, cooking and preserving. It's hard not to see how simple a few tiny steps would be to improving the way we eat, without taking the drastic measures the authors decided on. I highly recommend this to anyone concerned about where their food comes from, what's in it, and how to eat better, in every way.

This very personal account is a very inspiring and motivational book. While reading this, I couldn't stop telling people about the ideas, the stories and the passion of what i was reading. I checked the local farm market schedule midway through the book and am very excited to be going this week.

I think some other people are missing the point. This book isn't trying to convert everyone to a local diet. They don't always make the most environmentally friendly decisions, but it's the connection with the food and where it comes from, that's what is the moral of this story.

Between knowing your own fisherman, to making your own salt... to just knowing the season of what is fresh and local. The simple concept of 'who knows what asparagus season is' hit home... and I immediately downloaded the local crops information.

Too often, we are trying to cut spending and we hurt for it. Paying good money for good food is something definately worthwhile. I'm not going to pickle my vegetables, and live on beets for the winter... but it's a story that really makes me question what I'm eating, and where it comes from.

Consequently, I haven't been to a fast food place since reading this. Much better of an argument for me than fast food nation, or supersize this. The was truly a gem.