This two hundred and fifty page book is richly planted with history, information and humour. The ‘tribe’ ~ men and women of all ages who make up motley teams that replant our forests ~ forests valued in dollars and cents. The equipment of tree-planting ~ from hand tools to trucks for transportation to large heavy equipment. The history of the forests that have been relentlessly harvested to the baby trees planted by the tribe. Descriptions of British Columbia’s weather, forests and coastlines are damp, gritty and glorious. Charlotte Gill has crafted a continuous, rolling movement through the rubble and slashes of re-forestration, the slap-dash camps, and companies that employ anyone who dares test themselves in the rough and ready career of tree-planting.
“As the planet warms, we may come to see clear-cuts
as an obsolete extravagence. We may wish we’d looked
at forests in a different way. Worth more standing than
they are lying down, better off as trees than as logs.”
~ Charlotte Gill, Eating Dirt
Title: Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber and Life with the
Tree-Planting Tribe
Author: Charlotte Gill
Copyright: 2011
First paperback edition 2011
Type: Non-fiction
Publisher: Greystone Books
ISBN: 978-1-55365-977-8 (cloth)
ISBN: 978-1-55365-792-7 (pbk.)
ISBN: 978-1-55365-793 -4 (ebook)
Author's note: Edited April 05, 2024
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