Virtual Talk: Soil with Matthew Evans

Matthew Evans joins us via Zoom to tell the incredible story of what keeps the earth, and us, healthy.

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Virtual Talk: Soil with Matthew Evans

What we do to the soil, we do to ourselves.

For too long, we’ve not only neglected the land beneath us, we’ve squandered and debased it, by over clearing, over grazing and over ploughing. But if we want our food to nourish us, and to ensure our planet’s long term health, we need to understand how soil works how it’s made, how it’s lost, and how it can be repaired.

In this talk, commentator and farmer Matthew Evans will explain that what we do in our backyards, on our farms, and what we put on our dinner tables really matters, and can be a source of hope.

Isn’t it time we stopped treating the ground beneath our feet like dirt?

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About Matthew Evans

Matthew Evans is a former chef and food critic, now Tasmanian smallholder, restaurateur and food activist and star of the long running SBS TV show The Gourmet Farmer as well as food documentaries What’s the Catch? and For the Love of Meat. He is the author of thirteen books, including the authoritative and bestselling Real Food Companion and On Eating Meat.

About the Book

Soil is the unlikely story of our most maligned resource as swashbuckling hero. A saga of bombs, ice ages and civilisations falling. Of ancient hunger, modern sicknesses and gastronomic delight. It features poison gas, climate collapse and a mind-blowing explanation of how rain is formed.

For too long, we’ve not only neglected the land beneath us, we’ve squandered and debased it, by over clearing, over grazing and over ploughing. But if we want our food to nourish us, and to ensure our planet’s long term health, we need to understand how soil works how it’s made, how it’s lost, and how it can be repaired.

In this ode to the thin veneer of Earth that gifts us life, commentator and farmer Matthew Evans shows us that what we do in our backyards, on our farms, and what we put on our dinner tables really matters, and can be a source of hope.

“A love letter to Mother Earth and entertaining must-read that goes to the heart of our survival.”

– Charles Massey, author of Call of the Reed Warbler

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