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  • Dirt to Soil

  • One Family’s Journey into Regenerative Agriculture
  • By: Gabe Brown
  • Narrated by: Gabe Brown
  • Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (258 ratings)

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Dirt to Soil

By: Gabe Brown
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Gabe Brown didn’t set out to change the world when he first started working alongside his father-in-law on the family farm in North Dakota. But as a series of weather-related crop disasters put Brown and his wife, Shelly, in desperate financial straits, they started making bold changes to their farm.

Brown - in an effort to simply survive - began experimenting with new practices he’d learned about from reading and talking with innovative researchers and ranchers. As he and his family struggled to keep the farm viable, they found themselves on an amazing journey into a new type of farming: regenerative agriculture. Brown dropped the use of most of the herbicides, insecticides, and synthetic fertilizers that are a standard part of conventional agriculture. He switched to no-till planting, started planting diverse cover crops mixes, and changed his grazing practices. In doing so, Brown transformed a degraded farm ecosystem into one full of life - starting with the soil and working his way up, one plant and one animal at a time.

In Dirt to Soil, Gabe Brown tells the story of that amazing journey and offers a wealth of innovative solutions to our most pressing and complex contemporary agricultural challenge - restoring the soil. The Brown’s Ranch model, developed over 20 years of experimentation and refinement, focuses on regenerating resources by continuously enhancing the living biology in the soil.

Using regenerative agricultural principles, Brown’s 5,000-acre ranch has grown several inches of new topsoil in only 20 years! The key is how we think, Brown says. In the industrial agricultural model, all thoughts are focused on killing things. But that mind-set was also killing diversity, soil, and profit, Brown realized. Now, he channels his creative thinking toward how he can get more life on the land - more plants, animals, and beneficial insects.

“The greatest roadblock to solving a problem,” Brown says, “is the human mind."

©2018 Gabe Brown (P)2018 Chelsea Green Publishing

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Great read

This city slicker from Sydney Australia, found your book Gabe, very entertaining and informative. I especially liked the fact that you are passionate enough about your book to narrate yourself.
Cheers
Mark Nicholas

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  • 16-08-2020

a must listen

for farmers who want to know how to see improved profit at the same time as environmental regeneration.

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The Light Bulb Book for ALL farmers!!!!

This is not just a book, THIS IS A long awaited BIBLE FOR ALL AGRICULTURE PRACTICES!! whether you are a large scale agriculture industry or a small hobby/ plant enthusiast... this book is GOLD. I have searched long and hard for such a COMPREHENSIVE piece of literature, that is BACKED UP BY ACTUAL STATISTICS and EASY TO UNDERSTAND. A true testiment to the Author, Thank You, from Down Under.

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What an intro to regenerative agriculture - wow!

I love it when the author narrates their own book, it's always read with the same passion as it was written! Thankyou Gabe!

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  • 01-06-2021

Gabe is saving the world one mind at a time

As someone wanting to move the world in a better direction Gabe really put a lot of things into perspective. Soil is live!
Thank you for taking the time to write this Gabe!

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We need, not we should.

We as farmers need to apply this to our farms to keep our farms and soils alive along with our self's. I will be applying Gabe's systems and will we striving to get my farm to his level.

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One of the best audiobooks I’ve ever listened too!!

Gabe Brown comes across as one of the most authentic down to earth writers I’ve ever had the privilege to have heard. This book has reawakened a love for production agriculture and has opened my eyes to see both its beauty and its endless possibilities for creative methods of stacking enterprises. I’ve loved listening to this book and would definitely recommend to anyone who has been in agriculture there whole lives or just has an home garden.

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Challenging the thought process of conventional farming processes

Very informative and challenging of traditional mindsets. Takes natural laws to a new and very relatable level. Well done.

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Inspiring

As an engineer who got a agricultural engineering job, this book has awoken a passion for agriculture!
Amazing read, God bless you guys and your farm!

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  • Jo
  • 11-01-2023

If you grow anything, even a pot plant read this book

I’ve been interested in soil health for quite some time, however have not really had the experience or knowledge for practical application. Gabes explanations and examples of what he did and why he did. Them and specific outcomes were invaluable. I’ve now changed my practices on our smallholding and I’m starting to see results already.

I bought the hardcopy, a pack of highlighters and a whole lot of tabs so that I can really make use of the information. Thanks Gabe👏

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