The way food is grown and harvested directly affects our health. But we've become so divorced from the process that we're unable to make logical or intuitive food choices.

By Reviewed by Rupert Cutler Wendell Berry is a towering figure among those of us who appreciate the beauty and productivity of a landscape of small farms and farm woodlots.

By Weaver-Zercher, Valerie Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. By Barbara Kingsolver, with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsofoer. HarperCollins, 384 pp., $26.95.

By Tara Tuckwiller Regional refreshments We set out to make a quick, affordable supper from locally grown food, bought at Charleston stores and it was actually pretty easy.

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