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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

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