Dirt to Soil: One Family’s Journey into Regenerative Agriculture

I bought this book to learn more about wholistic management practices and found it very good. Good enough for me to purchase 3 more to give away as gifts.

Gabe Brown comparte generosamente su experiencia como agricultor, lecciones sencillas y amigables para entender que en la naturaleza podemos emcontrar las soluciones.

In the days of climate change and Global Warming, the book discusses very pertinent methods of agriculture bringing bio diversity

How to farm like a forest could be the title of this book. Mimicking nature will change everything could be the subtitle.For six years, preparing my PhD, I was teaching history of law and political doctrines, including political ecology, at Geneva University. Rousseau, Montesquieu, Plato… Rachel Carson. I acquired a general sense of ideas’ history.It is rather very rare that a book changes how we think for the rest of time. History will tell, but Gabe Brown might have written such a book. Based on his own adventure, in one book he presents principles to make soils fertile, healthy, profitable when farmed. How to farm without weakening soils. How to farm like a forest.Suddenly, carbon farming/regenerative agriculture free farmers from chemical fertilizers based agriculture. More, it gives farmers principals to build soils to protect their farm from droughts, floods, plants’ illness It also allows them to spend/work less and so much better. In 10’000 years of agriculture, with the exception of the Amazonian terra preta, I do not see too many examples. All other exemples were partial, or did not resist time.Soils’ microbiome building is the future of humanity. The principals might have been known, but, to my knowledge, they were never presented together, based on an out of the ordinary personal experience. Dirt to Soil has something of a citizens’ science emerging. Away from corporate narrow interests and war on life.This is not just a must read for anyone interested on the environment, it is a must put in the hands of all farmers for their good and our good.

This book delivered way more than I ever expected. As a story of one family's journey, it was well written and intriguing. I could see myself in the author's shoes. As that story developed in learnings and new experiments, results and failures, I developed a love for what they are doing and learning. This approach could very well save our planet.I have been interested in and toying with the idea of market gardening and after reading this book, I'm seriously considering larger scale farming as a way to heal our soils.