WHAT YOUR FOOD ATE How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim our Health

Laural Merlington narrates with intelligence, clarity, good pace, and timing that suits this scientific send-up of how farming practices have devolved. Her serious yet approachable tone and sure cadence work for this detailed and demanding manifesto on regenerative farming. Merlington does especially good work on the profiles and interviews that underpin the husband-and-wife team's thorough research, which upends the way that industrial farming--aiming for quantity over quality--has depleted soils. This argument for no-till agriculture, regenerative grazing practices, and eliminating the impact of synthetic fertilizers on the land provides the listener with a detailed blueprint of how the health of the soil affects human health. The authors argue persuasively that we need to adopt the policies of the future now. A.D.M. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine [Published: JULY 2022]