
What Your Food Ate
How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health
Description
A call to action that underscores why the roots of good health start with how we farm
We know that our diet influences our health. But is there more to the adage “you are what you eat?” Connecting the dots from agriculture to medicine, geologist David R. Montgomery and biologist Anne Biklé argue we overlook the other half of a healthy diet: how we grow our food.
Journeying from research labs to the fields of regenerative farmers, they uncover scientific and historical evidence for how farming practices—so often disruptive to microbial partnerships—influence soil health and shape the types and amounts of health-promoting minerals, fats and phytochemicals in our crops, meat and dairy—and thus ourselves. Understanding these connections has profound implications for what we eat and how we grow it, now and in the future. A capstone work from lauded authors, What Your Food Ate is a story both sobering and inspiring: what’s good for the soil is good for us, too.
Awards
Shortlisted — International Association of Culinary Professionals Cookbook Award, 2023
Also By: David R. Montgomery 

Daniel J. Sherman, David R. Montgomery
Second Edition, Paperback, 2023
Make environmental science personal

Daniel J. Sherman, David R. Montgomery
E Book, 2020
Make environmental science and sustainability personal

David R. Montgomery
Paperback, 2018
An inspiring vision for restoring the soil that feeds us all and turns agriculture into a solution for environmental crises.

David R. Montgomery
E Book, 2017
An inspiring vision for restoring the soil that feeds us all and turns agriculture into a solution for environmental crises.

David R. Montgomery, Anne Biklé
Paperback, 2016
A riveting account of how emerging science about microbes, plants and our own bodies can revolutionise agriculture and medicine.
Also By: Anne Biklé 

David R. Montgomery, Anne Biklé
Paperback, 2016
A riveting account of how emerging science about microbes, plants and our own bodies can revolutionise agriculture and medicine.

David R. Montgomery, Anne Biklé
Hardback, 2015
A riveting account of how emerging science about microbes, plants and our own bodies can revolutionise agriculture and medicine.

David R. Montgomery, Anne Biklé
E Book, 2015
A riveting account of how emerging science about microbes, plants and our own bodies can revolutionise agriculture and medicine.