Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe by Charlotte Gill
“The humility that lies in the title of Charlotte Gill’s extraordinary Eating Dirt is more than borne out in this astonishing chronicle of work, the elements, and place. Years of the seasonal labor of planting trees in logged-off terrain are written about with verve, wonder and a ravenous ferocity about life, its cycles and rhythms . . …