In her 2007 bestseller, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, author Barbara Kingsolver discusses her family’s yearlong effort to eat only food that they could grow in themselves.  Her text is largely an argument for a return to an agricultural state, one in which individuals understand and have a relationship with their food. As such, Kingsolver theorizes the farm as not only a lifestyle, but also a place of education. If people adopt a lifestyle of eating only (or mostly) locally grown food, they will develop an understanding of how and when plants thrive and the benefits of eating food without processed preservatives. As such, their relationship to the land will be stronger because they will know more about agriculture as a result.