Bainbridge Island’s Open Mic Science

Drawing from their Dirt Trilogy, authors David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé will talk about their latest book, What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health. Weaving together science, history, and personal experience, they’ll illuminate the forgotten practices and new thinking in agriculture, medicine, and nutrition that can serve as a compass for humanity’s future.

David 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, TV, and radio including NOVA, PBS NewsHour, Fox and Friends, and All Things Considered. Anne Biklé is a biologist and science writer focusing on the connections between people, plants, food, health, and the environment. She has been known to coax garden plants into rambunctious growth and nurse them back from the edge of death with her regenerative gardening practices. Her work has appeared in digital and print magazines, newspapers, and radio and her gardening practices have been featured in independent and documentary films. Anne and David are married and live in Seattle, WA. Published in 2023, What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health is their most recent book. It builds on their trilogy of books about soil health, microbiomes, and farming—Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations, The Hidden Half of Nature, and Growing a Revolution.