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category: Nature
published: Sep 2011
ISBN:9781553657934
publisher: Greystone Books Ltd

Eating Dirt

Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe

by Charlotte Gill

tagged: forests & rainforests, personal memoirs
Description

Winner of the BC National Award for Non-Fiction, and short-listed for both the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction and the 2011 Hilary Weston Writer's Trust Award.

Eating Dirt is an extended postcard from the cut blocks — a vivid portrayal of one woman's life planting trees, her insights into the forest industry and its environmental implications, and a celebration of the wonder of trees.

Charlotte Gill spent almost twenty years working as a tree planter in the forests of Canada. During her million-tree career, she encountered hundreds of clear-cuts, each one a collision site between human civilization and the natural world. Charged with sowing the new forest in these clear-cuts, tree planters are a tribe caught between the stumps and the virgin timber, between environmentalists and loggers.

Published in partnership with the David Suzuki Foundation

About the Author

Charlotte Gill was born in London, England, and raised in the United States and Canada. She is a graduate of the MFA program in creative writing at the University of British Columbia. Her work has appeared in Canadian literary magazines and in Best Canadian Stories, and has been broadcast on CBC Radio. Charlotte Gill is the recipient of the British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction and the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize. She lives in Vancouver.

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