Describe the experiment Barbara and her family began after their move to the farm.

The reader can use this question to talk about the family's decision to eat locally grown, organic food, as much as possible, foregoing items that were produced far away and shipped to their local grocery stores as well as processed food and fast food. They also stopped buying meat from those sources. They raised their own produce, fruit, and meat, and bought from local producers whenever possible.

What did Barbara expect her family to do when the year of their experiment was officially over? What really happened? What would your family do?

Barbara did not really have expectations but seemed surprised to discover that the anniversary of their official beginning came and went without much notice. The question should provoke thoughts of Barbara's reaction, which was rather anticlimactic in some ways, to what...