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"Sure to become a game-changing guide to the future of good food and healthy landscapes." —Dan Barber, chef and author of The Third Plate

Prepare to set aside what you think you know about yourself and microbes. The Hidden Half of Nature reveals why good health—for people and for plants—depends on Earth’s smallest creatures. Restoring life to their barren yard and recovering from a health crisis, David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé discover astounding parallels between the botanical world and our own bodies. From garden to gut, they show why cultivating beneficial microbiomes holds the key to transforming agriculture and medicine.

ISBN-13: 9780393353372

Media Type: Paperback(Reprint)

Publisher: Norton W. W. & Company Inc.

Publication Date: 11-15-2016

Pages: 320

Product Dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.80(d)

David R. Montgomery is a professor at the University of Washington and a 2008 MacArthur Fellow. Anne Biklé is a biologist and environmental planner. Her career spans the fields of environmental stewardship, habitat restoration, and public health. The Hidden Half of Nature is her first book.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 Dead Dirt 7

2 Thinking Small 24

3 Looking into Life 35

4 Better Together 52

5 War on the Soil 64

6 Underground Allies 89

7 Too Close to Home 109

8 Inner Nature 131

9 Invisible Enemies 157

10 Feuding Saviors 172

11 Personal Alchemists 191

12 Tending the Garden 208

13 Courting Ancient Friends 224

14 Cultivating Health 247

Glossary 261

Notes 265

Sources 270

Acknowledgments 291

Index 295