Wednesday, September 10
7 PM
Dog-Eared Books
Join us for an evening with Anne Bikle, author of What Your Food Ate. This book delves into scientific evidence demonstrating how soil health ripples through to that of crops, livestock, and, ultimately, humans. Anne Bikle will be joined in conversation by Courtney Long, the food systems program manager at Iowa State’s extension office for Agriculture and Natural Resources and Community and Economic Development.
What Your Food Ate
The long-running partnerships through which crops and soil life nourish one another suffuse plant and animal foods in the human diet with an array of compounds and nutrients our bodies need to protect us from pathogens and chronic ailments. Unfortunately, conventional agricultural practices unravel these vital partnerships and thereby undercut our well-being. Can farmers and ranchers produce enough nutrient-dense food to feed us all? Can we have quality and quantity?Navigating discoveries and epiphanies about the world beneath our feet, they reveal why regenerative farming practices hold the key to healing sick soil and untapped potential for improving human health.
Humanity’s hallmark endeavors of agriculture and medicine emerged from our understanding of the natural world—and still depend on it.
Tickets
General Admission: Anne Biklé
This ticket gains you admission to a night of conversation and a copy of Anne Biklé’s book What Your Food Ate.
$18.95
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Anne Biklé is is a science writer, biologist, and public speaker. Her work focuses on the connections between people, plants, food, health, and the environment. She co-authored The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health with her husband, geologist David Montgomery. From garden to gut, the book combines memoir, science, and history to tell the story of humanity’s tangled relationship with the microbial world through the lens of agriculture and medicine. A bad case of plant lust pulls Anne into her garden where she coaxes plants into rambunctious growth or nurses them back from the edge of death.