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Eating Dirt

By: Charlotte Gill
Narrated by: Asha Vijayasingham
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Winner of the BC National Award for Non-Fiction

A tree planter's vivid story of a unique subculture and the magical life of the forest.

Charlotte Gill spent twenty years working as a tree planter in the forests of Canada. During her million-tree career, she encountered hundreds of clearcuts, each one a collision site between human civilization and the natural world, a complicated landscape presenting geographic evidence of our appetites. Charged with sowing the new forest in these clearcuts, tree planters are a tribe caught between the stumps and the virgin timber, between environmentalists and loggers.

In Eating Dirt, Gill offers up a slice of tree planting life in all of its soggy, gritty exuberance, while questioning the ability of conifer plantations to replace original forests that evolved over millennia into complex ecosystems. She looks at logging's environmental impact and its boom-and-bust history, and touches on the versatility of wood, from which we have devised countless creations as diverse as textiles and airplane parts.

With eloquent insight into our slowest-growing "renewable" resource, Eating Dirt joyously celebrates the priceless value of forests and the ancient, ever-changing relationship between humans and trees.

©2011 Charlotte Gill (P)2023 Viking
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