David R. Montgomery & Anne Biklé, Authors of What Your Food Ate

Oh hey, it's Mimi again. Gotcha two for the price of one today, because we're speaking with David Montgomery and Anne Biklé. I'm sure they don't need an introduction, because I know at least some of you all will have at least one of their books in your exhaustive libraries. If you haven't heard of them, David and Anne are married, live in Seattle, and are a pair of writers. To quote them, "Dave is a broad-minded geologist and Anne is a free-range biologist with a bad case of plant lust." If that doesn't make you want to hang out with them, I don't know how much better I'm going to be able to do. The reason I wanted to talk to them is not just because their book, What Your Food Ate, just came out, but also because they have a really great way of going back through the membrane of time and looking at some of the origins of our understanding about the connections between plants, soil microbiology, and our own health. I can't recommend the books highly enough. Dave's mustache is also the mustache to end all mustaches.

A list of some of their amazing works...

What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health (2022)

The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health (2015)

Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life (2017)

Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (2008)

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