Chapeters 18-20 are illustrations of the continuation of the seasons and in a way, life. While reading this book I was very impressed by the families progress and ability to cultivate crops and raise animals and essentially, support themselves. However, in the back of my brain, and I think every reader subconsciously thought this, “what are they going to eat when its -5 degrees and two feet of snow?”. Granted I just described a Wisconsin winter, but the question is the same. The hardest challenge for Kingsolver in this book was to prove that what she was doing could be reasonably done and even defy winter. The last three chapters really illustrate the final cycle of life. She clearly uses her turkey as an example, having raised them from birth the previous spring, and is now watching them complete their life cycle and have children of their own. The Kingsolver family has successfully completed a year of slow, homegrown food living and survived to talk about it. (and it sounded like a lot of fun)
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