Dirt : a love story / edited by Barbara Richardson ; foreword by Pam Houston ; contributors, Pir Elias Amidon [and thirty-five others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Houston, Pam, author of introduction, etc.

Contributor:

Richardson, Barbara K., editor.

Amidon, Pir Elias, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soils--Miscellanea.

Soils.

Soils--Anecdotes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lebanon, New Hampshire : ForeEdge, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Thirty-six artists, scientists, and renowned writers go wild about the virtues, pleasure, and importance of dirt!

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.

Notes:

"36 writers get down to earth"--Cover.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61168-800-0

OCLC:

922640685