5 Top health books like What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health by David R. Montgomery

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What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health

By: David R. Montgomery

4.26

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Are you really what you eat? David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé take us far beyond the well-worn ad…

If you liked the health plot in What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health by David R. Montgomery , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. The One-Straw Revolution

By: Masanobu Fukuoka

4.34

Format: 181 pages, Paperback

Fukuoka demonstrates how the way we look at farming influences the way we look at health, the schoo… read more

Similar categories in Masanobu Fukuoka's The One-Straw Revolution book and David R. Montgomery's What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health

  • nature
  • agriculture
  • gardening
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"Wajah alam merupakan sesuatu yang tidak dapat dikenal"

-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

"Orang sekarang ini makan dengan pikiran mereka, tidak dengan tubuh mereka"

-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

"Kebudayaan yang benar dilahirkan di alam, sederhana, rendah hati, dan murni"

-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

"I wonder how it is that people's philosophies have come to spin faster than the changing seasons."

-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

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2. The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

By: Wendell Berry

4.34

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

Since its publication by Sierra Club Books in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized a… read more

Similar categories in Wendell Berry's The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture book and David R. Montgomery's What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health

  • agriculture
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
"The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character."

-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

"If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too."

-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

"If we removed the status and compensation from the destructive exploits we classify as “manly,"

-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

"The specialists are profiting too well from the symptoms, evidently, to be concerned about cures—just as the myth of imminent cure (by some “breakthrough"

-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

3. Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens

By: Douglas W. Tallamy

4.06

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

As development and subsequent habitat destruction accelerate, there are increasing pressures on wil… read more

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4. Restoration Agriculture

By: Mark Shepard

4.89

Format: 78 pages, Paperback

Around the globe most people get their calories from annual agriculture - plants that grow fast for… read more

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5. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists … read more

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6. Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them

By: Dan Saladino

4.29

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Dan Saladino's Eating to Extinction is the prominent broadcaster’s pathbreaking tour of the world’s… read more

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  • food
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"The science writer David Quammen puts it: 'When we disrupt ecosystems, we shake viruses loose from their natural hosts, and when they happens, they need a new host. Often, we are it. And so, they spi…"

-Dan Saladino, Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them

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7. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

By: Ben Goldfarb

4.45

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • … read more

Similar categories in Ben Goldfarb's Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet book and David R. Montgomery's What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
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8. The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees

By: Douglas W. Tallamy

4.35

Format: 197 pages, Hardcover

“With our hearts and minds focused on the stewardship of the only planet we have, the best way to e… read more

Similar categories in Douglas W. Tallamy's The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees book and David R. Montgomery's What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health

  • gardening
  • plants
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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9. Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard

By: Douglas W. Tallamy

4.37

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Douglas W. Tallamy’s first book, Bringing Nature Home, sparked a national conversation about the li… read more

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  • gardening
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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10. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

By: Suzanne Simard

4.22

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their conne… read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"Plants are attuned to one another's strengths and weaknesses, elegantly giving and taking to attain exquisite balance. There is grace in complexity, in actions cohering, in sum totals."

-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

"Such a marvel, the tenacity of the buds to surge with life every spring, to greet the lengthening days and warming weather with exuberance, no matter what hardships were brought by winter."

-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

"This Mother Tree was the central hub that the saplings and seedlings nested around, with threads of different fungal species, of different colors and weights, linking them, layer upon layer, in a str…"

-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

"I was lucky to become one of the first in the new generation of women in the logging industry, but what I found was not what I had grown up to understand. Instead I discovered vast landscapes cleared…"

-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

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11. Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture

By: Gabe Brown

4.46

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Gabe Brown didn't set out to change the world when he first started working alongside his father-in… read more

Similar categories in Gabe Brown's Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture book and David R. Montgomery's What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health

  • nature
  • agriculture
  • gardening
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
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12. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

By: Zoë Schlanger

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more

Similar categories in Zoë Schlanger's The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth book and David R. Montgomery's What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health

  • plants
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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13. Medieval Myths & Mysteries (The Great Courses)

By: Dorsey Armstrong

4.14

Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio

Listening Length: 5 hours and 6 minutes Was King Arthur a real person? What about Robin Hood? Is… read more

Similar categories in Dorsey Armstrong's Medieval Myths & Mysteries (The Great Courses) book and David R. Montgomery's What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health

  • nonfiction
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14. Old-Fashioned on Purpose: Cultivating a Slower, More Joyful Life

By: Jill Winger

4.42

Format: None pages, ebook

"In a world where so many of us are craving a life of simplicity and meaning, Old-Fashioned on Purp… read more

Similar categories in Jill Winger's Old-Fashioned on Purpose: Cultivating a Slower, More Joyful Life book and David R. Montgomery's What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health

  • agriculture
  • health
  • gardening
  • food
  • nonfiction
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15. How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason

By: Lee McIntyre

3.86

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Can we change the minds of science deniers? Encounters with flat earthers, anti-vaxxers, coronaviru… read more

Similar categories in Lee McIntyre's How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason book and David R. Montgomery's What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • science
"Nadie se autoidentifica como negacionista de la ciencia. A menudo se ven a sí mismos como más científicos que los científicos. Lo que uno de nosotros piense de ellos, muchos de ellos lo pensarán de n…"

-Lee McIntyre, How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason

"Quizá sea tan difícil que un negacionista de la ciencia cambie de opinión a base de evidencia porque, en cierto sentido, la evidencia no es realmente lo que fundamenta sus creencias. Puede que el con…"

-Lee McIntyre, How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason

"Aunque el contenido de los sistemas de creencias varíe, todo negacionismo de la ciencia parece fundamentarse en un reducido conjunto de errores del razonamiento humano. [...] 1)Evidencia basada en un…"

-Lee McIntyre, How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason

"En su libro tremendamente útil How to Have Impossible Conversations, el filósofo Peter Boghossian y el matemático James Lindsay nos proporcionan un sorprendente consejo para tratar de convencer a alg…"

-Lee McIntyre, How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason

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16. What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health

By: David R. Montgomery

4.26

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Are you really what you eat? David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé take us far beyond the well-worn ad… read more

Similar categories in David R. Montgomery's What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health book and David R. Montgomery's What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health

  • nature
  • agriculture
  • health
  • politics
  • gardening
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • plants
  • environment
  • science
Cover of Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal by Mark Bittman

17. Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal

By: Mark Bittman

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and pioneering journalist, an expansive look at how h… read more

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  • health
  • politics
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"Ecologists recognized that resources are finite, and that nature is in charge. That's basic science. Capitalists believe that nature exists to be exploited by humans, a tenet perfectly in tune with W…"

-Mark Bittman, Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal

"In what's usually referred to as "the Columbian Exchange" -one of history's great misnomers, given the genocide that followed - Europe took so much of value from the Indigenous people of what became …"

-Mark Bittman, Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal

"Domesticated animals were often too valuable to be eaten. Indeed, the amount of meat consumed per person may well have gone down with the advent of farming as wild animals became scarce, at least nea…"

-Mark Bittman, Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal

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18. Soil Science for Gardeners: Working with Nature to Build Soil Health

By: Robert Pavlis

4.06

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Build healthy soil and grow better plants Healthy soil means thriving plants. Yet untangling the… read more

Similar categories in Robert Pavlis's Soil Science for Gardeners: Working with Nature to Build Soil Health book and David R. Montgomery's What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health

  • gardening
  • plants
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of A Bold Return to Giving a Damn: One Farm, Six Generations, and the Future of Food by Will Harris

19. A Bold Return to Giving a Damn: One Farm, Six Generations, and the Future of Food

By: Will Harris

4.52

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

"If I could have one wish it is that every eater in America would read this book." —Ruth Reichl Fr… read more

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  • agriculture
  • health
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"The food that came out of the [industrialized] system was artifically cheap - the price was subsidized by the environment, our wildlife and aquatic life, and our bad health. We just couldn’t see thos…"

-Will Harris, A Bold Return to Giving a Damn: One Farm, Six Generations, and the Future of Food

Cover of Silk: A World History by Aarathi Prasad

20. Silk: A World History

By: Aarathi Prasad

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In a gorgeous history that spans continents and millennia, Aarathi Prasad weaves together the compl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry by Austin Frerick

21. Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry

By: Austin Frerick

4.20

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Barons is the story of seven corporate titans, their rise to power, and the consequences for everyo… read more

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  • agriculture
  • health
  • politics
  • food
  • nonfiction

18 best-selling nonfiction books like What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health by David R. Montgomery

Transform Your Habits

The One-Straw Revolution

Masanobu Fukuoka

4.34

Transform Your Habits

The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

Wendell Berry

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them

Dan Saladino

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

Ben Goldfarb

4.45

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9 Top audiobook books like Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal by Mark Bittman

Transform Your Habits

Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them

Dan Saladino

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat

Marion Nestle

3.53

Transform Your Habits

Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food

Chris van Tulleken

4.43

Transform Your Habits

Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions

Michael Moss

3.80

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