Tag: ecology

Book Review: Dirt to Soil

Dirt to Soil: One Family’s Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture by Gabe Brown I bought this book because it was recommended as a good foray into the world of restorative agriculture. So much of what most people believe about growing plants, including what many farmers are taught, isn’t actually accurate. I was taught that plants need …

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Book Review: Entangled Life

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake This book taught me how much I don’t know about mushrooms. It’s basically like the fungal equivalent of “The Secret Life of Trees” when you pick up a book wondering how much there is to learn about such …

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Book Review: The Hidden Life of Trees

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben This book taught me a lot about trees that I didn’t know, and what I did know about trees had mostly come from secondhand accounts of this book before I read it. For example, that …

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