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Anne Biklé – Eating From the Hidden Half of Nature

Agricultural practices profoundly influence levels of phytochemicals, nutrients, and other compounds in crops and livestock. When we feed the grand symbiotic partnership between a plant and the soil microbiome, it ripples through to the human diet—and our own bodies—in profound ways. The reality is that our well-being depends on what the microbiomes in the soil and the gut eat. And this calls for re-thinking the practices that currently underpin two of humanity’s greatest endeavors—agriculture and medicine.

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  • Timezone: America/New_York
  • Date: Mar 16 2022
  • Time: 5:25 PM - 6:15 PM

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  • Anne Biklé Anne Biklé Author, Biologist, Co-Founder of Dig2Grow
    Anne Biklé
    Anne Biklé
    Author, Biologist, Co-Founder of Dig2Grow

    Anne Biklé is a science writer and public speaker focusing on the connections between people, plants, food, health, and the environment. A bad case of plant lust draws her into the botanical world in search of answers about humanity’s tangled relationship with nature and its tiniest creatures, the microbes that dwell in soil and the human body. She has coaxed many a plant into rambunctious growth or nursed them back from the edge of death with her regenerative gardening practices. Her latest book, What Your Food Ate: How to Heal the Land and Reclaim our Health, explores connections between soil health and human health and will be published in 2022. The book is another collaboration with husband, geologist David Montgomery and builds on The Hidden Half of Nature, the middle volume of their Dirt Trilogy. Her writing has appeared in print and digital media and on radio and her gardening practices have been featured in independent and documentary films.