13 must-read nature books like Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture by Gabe Brown

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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…

If you liked the nature plot in Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture by Gabe Brown , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Cows Save the Planet: And Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth

By: Judith D. Schwartz , Gretel Ehrlich

4.10

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In Cows Save the Planet, journalist Judith D. Schwartz looks at soil as a crucible for our many ove… read more

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  • nature
  • ecology
  • agriculture
  • gardening
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • environment
  • science
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2. 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

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  • nature
  • ecology
  • 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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3. Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web

By: Jeff Lowenfels , Wayne Lewis

4.41

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

Smart gardeners know that soil is anything but an inert substance. Healthy soil is teeming with lif… read more

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  • nature
  • ecology
  • agriculture
  • gardening
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"If you really want to be a good gardener, you need to understand what is going on in your soil."

-Jeff Lowenfels, Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web

"Visualize any wooded area you remember visiting. It is beautiful, majestic - and no one ever fertilized any of the plants there. Not one single time."

-Jeff Lowenfels, Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web

"Without this [Soil Food Web system of bacteria, fungi etc], most important nutrients would drain from soil. Instead, they are retained in the bodies of soil life. Here is the gardener's truth: when y…"

-Jeff Lowenfels, Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web

"Bacteria are so small they need to stick to things or they will wash away; to attach themselves, they produce a slime, the secondary result of which is that individual soil particles are bound togeth…"

-Jeff Lowenfels, Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web

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4. 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

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  • nature
  • ecology
  • agriculture
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • environment
"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

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5. The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet

By: Kristin Ohlson

3.52

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Thousands of years of poor farming and ranching practices--and, especially, modern industrial agric… read more

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  • nature
  • agriculture
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • environment
  • science
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6. Pastured Poultry Profits

By: Joel Salatin , None , None

3.24

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

A couple working six months per year for 50 hours per week on 20 acres can net $25,000-$30,000 per … read more

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  • agriculture
  • gardening
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • science

7. You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise

By: Joel Salatin

3.45

Format: 94 pages,

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  • gardening
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • agriculture
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8. Gut and Psychology Syndrome: Natural Treatment for Autism, ADD/ADHD, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Depression, Schizophrenia

By: Natasha Campbell-McBride

3.83

Format: None pages,

Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride set up The Cambridge Nutrition Clinic in 1998. As a parent of a child … read more

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  • food
  • nonfiction

9. Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World

By: Joel Salatin

4.89

Format: 78 pages, Hardcover

From farmer Joel Salatin's point of view, life in the 21st century just ain't normal. In FOLKS, THI… read more

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10. 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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11. Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations

By: David R. Montgomery

3.57

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

Dirt, soil, call it what you want--it's everywhere we go. It is the root of our existence, supporti… read more

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12. Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-scale Permaculture

By: Toby Hemenway

4.00

Format: None pages,

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13. Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life

By: David R. Montgomery

4.36

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "A call to action that underscore… read more

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  • science
  • agriculture
  • gardening
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • environment
  • audiobook
"In many ways, soil degradation set the long-wavelenght pattern of history, as wars, natural disasters, and climate shifts pulled the trigger on environmental guns loaded by soil loss and degradation."

-David R. Montgomery, Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life

"People tend to assume that organic farming and sustainability go hand in hand. But that's not necessarily the case - and it hasn't been for most of history. While going organic has some big advantage…"

-David R. Montgomery, Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life

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14. 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 Gabe Brown's Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture

  • nature
  • science
  • ecology
  • agriculture
  • gardening
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • environment
  • audiobook
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15. Wilding

By: Isabella Tree

4.46

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was… read more

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  • science
  • ecology
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
"People have a famously soft spot for pigs. Intelligent, inquisitive, imperious, myopic, sociable, gluttonous, grunting, ungainly, it is easy to recognize ourselves in them."

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"The great concerns of our time – climate change, natural resources, food production, water control and conservation, and human health – all boil down to the condition of the soil."

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"Over the years modern farming has reduced soil to....‘dirt’ – a sterile medium in which plants struggle to grow without artificial fertilizers. It is a self-perpetuating cycle of destruction and chem…"

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"But the world of academia is a strange, sometimes counterproductive and often sluggish place. Where one may expect it to be open and responsive to new thinking, it can be oddly conservative and resis…"

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

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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

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  • nature
  • agriculture
  • gardening
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
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17. Rooted: Stories of Life, Land and a Farming Revolution

By: Sarah Langford

4.41

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

When Sarah Langford left her city life behind she found herself unexpectedly back in the world of f… read more

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  • nature
  • ecology
  • agriculture
  • gardening
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • environment
Cover of A Bold Return to Giving a Damn: One Farm, Six Generations, and the Future of Food by Will Harris

18. 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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  • science
  • ecology
  • agriculture
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
"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

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19. For the Love of Soil: Strategies to Regenerate Our Food Production Systems

By: Nicole Masters

4.37

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

**UPDATED VERSION** 'For the Love of Soil' is a land manager’s roadmap to healthy soil, revitalized… read more

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  • nature
  • science
  • ecology
  • agriculture
  • gardening
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • environment
  • audiobook
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20. Call of the Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture A New Earth

By: Charles Massy

4.32

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Is it too late to regenerate the earth? Call of the Reed Warbler shows the way forward for the futu… read more

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  • nature
  • ecology
  • agriculture
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • environment
  • science
Cover of The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health by David R. Montgomery

21. The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health

By: David R. Montgomery

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A riveting exploration of how microbes are transforming the way we see nature and ourselves - and c… read more

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  • nature
  • ecology
  • gardening
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science

5 best-selling audiobook books like Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture by Gabe Brown

Transform Your Habits

Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life

David R. Montgomery

4.36

Transform Your Habits

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

Gabe Brown

4.46

Transform Your Habits

Wilding

Isabella Tree

4.46

Transform Your Habits

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

Will Harris

4.52

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22 must-read nonfiction books like The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health by David R. Montgomery

Transform Your Habits

The One-Straw Revolution

Masanobu Fukuoka

4.34

Transform Your Habits

I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

Ed Yong

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Mismeasure of Man

Stephen Jay Gould

5.00

Transform Your Habits

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

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