Do you know For the Love of Soil by Nicole Masters? She has some great info about the correlation between some of our gut microbes / that in soil & tells of Chinese traditionally taking a pouch of dirt with them from home when they travelled that they could eat a pinch of it to dispel a sore stomach. The We’ll Gardened Mind by Sure Stuart Smith is also full of accounts of how people are at their best with their hands in the ground & the converse - such a good read if you haven’t already…
Thanks Kareen! I’ve read The Well Gardened Mind (such a good title) but not For the Love of Soil. Thanks for the recommendation. I love the idea of carrying a pouch of dirt when travelling, both literally and metaphorically! Norman Wirzba is really good on what might be called a theology of microbes.
Love the soil + divinity equation!
Do you know For the Love of Soil by Nicole Masters? She has some great info about the correlation between some of our gut microbes / that in soil & tells of Chinese traditionally taking a pouch of dirt with them from home when they travelled that they could eat a pinch of it to dispel a sore stomach. The We’ll Gardened Mind by Sure Stuart Smith is also full of accounts of how people are at their best with their hands in the ground & the converse - such a good read if you haven’t already…
Thanks Kareen! I’ve read The Well Gardened Mind (such a good title) but not For the Love of Soil. Thanks for the recommendation. I love the idea of carrying a pouch of dirt when travelling, both literally and metaphorically! Norman Wirzba is really good on what might be called a theology of microbes.