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Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe | Charlotte Gill

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Winner of the BC National Award for Non-Fiction, and short-listed for both the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction and the 2011 Hilary Weston Writer's Trust Award. Eating Dirt is an extended postcard from the cut blocks—a vivid portrayal of one woman's life planting trees, her insights into the forest industry and its environmental implications, and a celebration of the wonder of trees. Charlotte Gill spent almost twenty years working as a tree planter in the forests of Canada. During her million-tree career, she encountered hundreds of clear-cuts, each one a collision site between human civilization and the natural world. Charged with sowing the new forest in these clear-cuts, tree planters are a tribe caught between the stumps and the virgin timber, between environmentalists and loggers. Also available in paperback.

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Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe | Charlotte Gill

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Want to read about the delight of prancing around planting trees, do not read this book. If you want to read about the tough men and women who pound their way through the wild (ocean, mountains, bugs, bears, cougars, heat, etc) in an epic attempt to restore balance and harmony to an ever evolving world, please read this amazing book. #LRC20 #ByAnIndiePublisher #IndiePublisher

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Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe | Charlotte Gill

Tree planting communities and culture on Vancouver Island and parts of Canada. Great writing, with exquisite detail, and with a significant amount of science thrown in. Highly recommended.

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