We really are what we eat. Eating close to home is not just a matter of convenience, it is an act of deeply sensual, cultural, and environmental significance. Gary Paul Nabhan's experience as an avid gardener and subsistence hunter-gatherer, as an ethnobotanist preserving seed diversity, and as an activist devoted to recovering native food traditions to restore the health of Native Americans in the Southwest. He spent a year trying to eat only foods grown, fished, or gathered within two hundred miles of his home, with surprising results, To rediscover what it might mean to "know your foodshed". A vibrant portrait of the essential cultural relations to the foods that truly nourish us, affirming our bonds to family, community, landscape, and season. 5.5 X 8.5 paperback with 330 pages. To Order By Phone Call Toll Free: 866-596-9982