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Nature / Essays “Several essays r confirm something i c h thirty-six artists, scientists, I have suspected a all along, that r and renowned writers go wild d those who get s about the virtues, pleasure, o dirty with some n and importance of dirt! regularity and a lot of enthusiasm are more likely to be u C ommunity farms. Mud spas. Mineral paints. healthy than those a love story Nematodes. The world is waking up to the beauty who don’t.” and mystery of dirt. This anthology celebrates the from the Earth’s generous crust, bringing together essays by foreword by d award-winning scientists, authors, artists, and dirt pam houston lovers to tell dirt’s exuberant tales. a i r 36 Essayists include Geographically broad and topically diverse, these vandana shiva, essays reveal life as lived by dirt fanatics — admiring t writers peter heller, the first worm of spring, taking a childhood twirl across janisse ray, get a dusty Kansas farm, calculating how soil breathes, or a bernd heinrich, down baking mud pies. Essayists build a dirt house, center a linda hogan, a marriage around dirt, sink down into marshy heaven, wes jackson, to l and learn to read dirt’s own language. Scientists usher bk loren, o v earth us deep underground with the worms and mycorrhizae david r. e montgomery, to explore the vast and largely ignored natural processes s laura pritchett, t occurring beneath our feet. Whether taking a trek o and to Venezuela to touch the oldest dirt in the world or r deborah koons y reveling in the blessings of our own native soils, these garcia. a muscular essays answer the important question: How do you get down with dirt? barbara richardson Edited by ForeEdge is the author barbara richardson F of two novels: o r www.ForeEdgeBooks.com Tributary and Guest e Foreword by E House. She lives in d Cover illustration: © Stephanie Frey / g pam houston Kamas, Utah. e 123RF Stock Photo Richardson - Dirt.indb 1 6/18/2015 9:46:04 AM Richardson - Dirt.indb 2 6/18/2015 9:46:04 AM dirt a a love story edited by barbara richardson foreword by pam houston a ForeEdge Richardson - Dirt.indb 3 6/18/2015 9:46:04 AM ForeEdge An imprint of University Press of New England www.upne.com © 2015 Barbara Richardson All rights reserved For permission to reproduce any of the material in this book, contact Permissions, University Press of New England, One Court Street, Suite 250, Lebanon NH 03766; or visit www.upne.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Dirt: a love story / edited by Barbara Richardson. pages cm isbn 978-1-61168-900-6 (cloth : alk. paper) — isbn 978-1-61168-766-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) — isbn 978-1-61168-800-9 (ebook) 1. Soils —Miscellanea. 2. Soils —Anecdotes. I. Richardson, Barbara K. s598.d5 2015 631.4 —dc23 2015003396 i’m a dirt person. i trust the dirt. i don’t trust diamonds and gold. a eartha kitt Richardson - Dirt.indb 5 6/18/2015 9:46:04 AM Richardson - Dirt.indb 6 6/18/2015 9:46:04 AM contents Foreword · Scratching the Surface xi pam houston Preface · The God of Dirt xix barbara richardson 1 land centered My Life in Dirt 3 edward kanze, naturalist The Great Beneath 8 linda hogan, author Dirt Fantasies 15 jana richman, author Praise to the Transformers 21 janisse ray, author Glosses on Dirt 29 erica olsen, author Soil Versus Dirt · A Reverie on Getting Down to Earth 35 kayann short, csa farmer Digging In 41 elias amidon, sufi teacher 2 kid stuff Dirt Princess 47 julene bair, author The First Worm 55 john t. price, author The Language of Clay 60 roxanne swentzell, sculptor Dirt · Imago Ignota 62 john keeble, author Richardson - Dirt.indb 7 6/18/2015 9:46:04 AM Mud Pies 68 chris larson, green architect Services at the Church of Dirt 70 marilyn krysl, poet 3 dirt worship Dreaming in Dirt 77 bk loren, author Tao of Dirt 79 liz stephens, author The Life of Soil 82 bernd heinrich, biologist Dirt in Love 87 barbara richardson, author Dirt House 92 peter heller, author Sinking Down into Heaven 96 jeanne rogers, artist & author 4 dirt facts The Soil’s Breath 103 tyler volk, biologist Earthmover 108 lisa knopp, author Worm Herder · A Q and A with Dr. Diana H. Wall 113 carrie visintainer, journalist Seeing Soils 119 deborah koons garcia, filmmaker The Next Big Thing in Soil Science 126 carl rosen, soil scientist A Badge of Honor 129 tom wessels, terrestrial ecologist Dirty Business 134 david r. montgomery, geomorphologist Richardson - Dirt.indb 8 6/18/2015 9:46:04 AM Feed Your Soil 141 bob cannard & fred cline, sustainable farmer & vintner 5 native soil Hostile Takeovers · An Ode to Guts and Gardens 149 laura pritchett, author Fight the Power 156 eban goodstein, environmental economist Born Again · Loving the Least Worst Land in Mississippi 162 donald g. schueler, author Stewards of the Land 170 wes jackson, agricultural activist We Are Soil 173 vandana shiva, soil & seed activist City Dirt 178 karen washington, urban farmer Soil Versus Oil —Kale Versus Koch 183 atina diffley, organic farmer Contributors 193 Credits 199 Richardson - Dirt.indb 9 6/18/2015 9:46:05 AM
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