I first read this book, in February of 2014 for the book club I belonged to. I enjoyed it and the conversation it engendered then, and I enjoyed it now. Just missing the conversation and my friends from that time. What follows is the review that I wrote at the time.
“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 the motley teams that replant our forests, forests valued in dollars and cents. The equipment of tree-planting ~ from hand tools, heavy canvas bags to hefty 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 reforestation, 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 extravagance. 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
Publisher: Greystone Books
Type: Non-Fiction
Format: Paperback
ISBN - 978-1-55365-977-8 (cloth)
ISBN - 978-1-55365-792-7 (pbk)
ISBN - 978-1-55365-793-4 (ebook)
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