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SUMMARY:Tending the Garden: How Microbes Feed Us
DESCRIPTION:If you think of bacteria as something to be feared and wiped away with spray and cloth\, now may be the time to change your mind! \nDid you know that bacteria were fundamental to the creation of life on earth? And that our bodies wouldn’t exist as they do without bacteria? And that microbes are fundamental to both growing food and consuming it? And that they are fundamental to plant and human health? \nThe live biomass of all microbes may be at least as much as all plants and animals on Earth. And we can’t see them. \nCo-authors of The Hidden Half of Nature\, David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé will lead our discussion through the myriad tiny byways and interactions of microbes\, and explain how fostering good microbial populations is fundamental to both human bodily health and healthy food production. \nThis is one that your good life depends on. \nAnne 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 to the garden where she coaxes garden plants into rambunctious growth or nurses them back from the edge of death with her regenerative gardening practices.  \nShe co-authored The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health with her husband\, geologist David Montgomery. From garden to gut\, the book combines memoir\, science\, and history to tell the story of humanity’s tangled relationship with the microbial world through the lens of agriculture and medicine.  \nHer work has appeared in magazines\, newspapers\, and radio and her soil-building gardening practices have been featured in independent and documentary films.   \nDavid R. Montgomery is a MacArthur Fellow and professor of geomorphology at the University of Washington.  He is an internationally recognized geologist who studies the effects of geological processes on ecological systems and human societies.  His work has been featured in documentary films\, network and cable news\, and on a wide variety of TV and radio programs\, including NOVA\, PBS NewsHour\, Fox and Friends\, and All Things Considered.   \nDavid is also the author of several popular books including Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations and Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life.   \nDavid and Anne are currently working on a new book project about the connections between soil health and human health.  \nSocial Media & Contact for David and Anne \nweb:  www.Dig2Grow.com  ||  twitter:  @Dig2Grow  ||  email:  Dig2Grow@gmail.com \nThe background reading and watching for KT6 follows two strands – firstly\, the way microbial life in soils contributes to soil\, plant and animal health\, and also how the microbiome in our digestive system contributes to human health\, nutrition and general wellbeing.
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