Barbara Kingsolver | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires

In Praise of Gardening

Anita Mathias — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 18:40:37 +0000

(A hellebore from my garden on Easter Sunday last year) Here’s a lyrical passage from Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle Gardening provides rewards far beyond the vegetable paycheck. It gets a body outside for some part of every day to work the heart, lungs, and muscles you wouldn’t believe existed, providing a healthy balance to […]

The post In Praise of Gardening first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.

An Immensely Abundant Universe. Seeds as a Solution to World Hunger

Anita Mathias — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:31:22 +0000

Barbara Kingsolver’s describes her marvellously productive garden in her memoir of a gardening year, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. We spent the July 4th weekend applying rock lime to the beans and eggplants to discourage beetles, and tying up the waist-high tomato vines to four-foot cages and stakes. In February, each of these plants had been a […]

The post An Immensely Abundant Universe. Seeds as a Solution to World Hunger first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Anita Mathias — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:33:00 +0000

Our family listened to Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible on tape on our summer holiday, and were engrossed by it. It’s the story of an American Baptist family, the Prices, who go out to the Congo to convert “the heathen.” The father, Nathan, simple-minded and fanatical, is a prototypical “ugly American,” who scarily conflates the […]

The post The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.