Chapter 18 is about what the family eats in January. These items include Winter Squash, Beans, Carrots, Potatoes, Chicken, and anything that they had frozen from the summer. The author says they kind of luck out that they had enough food to make it through the winter without resorting to food from the grocery store.
Chapter 19 is another chapter on the turkeys Kingsolver bought to raise for food. The turkeys are struggling because, as talked about in other chapters, they do not know how to reproduce on their own. While Kingsolver bought turkeys that are physically able to reproduce they do not know how. And when they do manage to get pregnant the mother turkeys do not know how to raise their young because the chicks have been taken away from the mother to be raised in a box somewhere else for generations so they do not know how to act. This is the main struggle for the author in this chapter.
Chapter 20, the final chapter in the book, is an overall summery and conclusion to the year of eating only locally grown and organic food. Kingsolver does the math and it turns out it only cost them 50 cents per person per meal over the last year to eat locally. Of course they put in a lot more work and time to achieve this, and also lost out on variety over the winter months, but it is still very inexpensive.
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