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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Foreword : scratching the surface / Pam Houston -- Preface : the god of dirt / Barbara Richardson -- My life in dirt / Edward Kanze, Naturalist -- The great beneath / Linda Hogan, Author -- Dirt fantasies / Jana Richman, Author -- Praise to the transformers / Janisse Ray, Author -- Glosses on dirt / Erica Olsen, Author -- Soil versus dir t: a reverie on getting down to earth / Kayann Short, CSA Farmer -- Digging in / Elias Amidon, Sufi Teacher -- Dirt princess / Julene Bair, Author -- The first worm / John T. Price, Author -- The language of clay / Roxanne Swentzell, Sculptor -- Dirt : imago ignota / John Keeble, Author -- Mud pies / Chris Larson, Green Architect -- Services at the church of dirt / Marilyn Krysl, Poet -- Dreaming in dirt / BK Loren, Author -- Tao of dirt / Liz Stephens, Author -- The life of soil / Bernd Heinrich, Biologist -- Dirt in love / Barbara Richardson, Author -- Dirt house / Peter Heller, Author -- Sinking down into heaven / Jeanne Rogers, Artist and Author -- The soil's breath / Tyler Volk, Biologist -- Earthmover / Lisa Knopp, Author -- Worm herder : a Q and A with Dr. Diana H. Wall / Carrie Visintainer, Journalist -- Seeing soils / Deborah Koons Garcia, Filmmaker -- The next big thing in soil science / Carl Rosen, Soil Scientist -- A badge of honor / Tom Wessels, Terrestrial Ecologist -- Dirty business / David R. Montgomery, Geomorphologist -- Feed your soil / Bob Cannard and Fred Cline, Sustainable Farmer and Vintner -- Hostile takeovers : an ode to guts and gardens / Laura Pritchett, Author -- Fight the power / Eban Goodstein, Environmental Economist -- Born again : loving the least worst land in mississippi / Donald G. Schueler, Author -- Stewards of the land / Wes Jackson, Agricultural Activist -- We are soil / Vandana Shiva, Soil and Seed Activist -- City dirt / Karen Washington, Urban Farmer -- Soil versus oil, kale versus koch / Atina Diffley, Organic Farmer |
| Summary |
Thirty-six artists, scientists, and renowned writers go wild about the virtues, pleasure, and importance of dirt! |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Soils -- Miscellanea
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Soils -- Anecdotes
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- General.
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Soils
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| Genre/Form |
Anecdotes
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Trivia and miscellanea
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Richardson, Barbara K
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| ISBN |
9781611688009 |
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1611688000 |
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