Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Deep Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe

Join us as author Charlotte Gill reads from her new book, Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Deep Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe.

Eating Dirt offers up a slice of tree-planting life in all of its soggy, gritty exuberance, while questioning the ability of conifer plantations to replace original forests that evolved over millennia into complex ecosystems.

Charlotte Gill looks at logging’s environmental impact and its boom-and-bust history, and touches on the versatility of wood, from which we have devised countless creations as diverse as textiles and airplane parts.

A literary memoir, Eating Dirt has received rave reviews and been shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Prize and the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction.

This is a free event and everyone is welcome!