Earth Day Celebration — Kayann Short and Laura Pritchett at Wolverine Publick House
Get your Earth Day on track in Fort Collins, Colorado
Happy Dirt, Healthy Soil: Celebrating Earth Day 46, in 2016
Friday, April 22
7:00 to 9:00 PM
Laura Pritchett on guts and gardens; Kayann Short on dirt vs. soil; Jane Shellenberger
on potatoes in Peru; Happy Heart Farm on earthworms
Join the fun!
Dirt on the Radio
For the Love of Soil—Radio Interview on Oregon's Jefferson Exchange—with Jeanne Rogers
Paradigms Online Radio interview—with Tom Wessels
Author events across the country
Linda Hogan, BK Loren, Peter Heller, Laura Pritchett, Julene Bair and Janice Gould talking Dirt at the Jaipur Literature Festival in Boulder, Colorado.
Pam Houston talks Dirt onstage with authors Lisa Jones, Barbara Richardson, BK Loren, Marilyn Krysl, Kayann Short and Laura Pritchett at the Colorado hoedown.
Letting the dirt-loving, hoedown good times roll in Longmont, Colorado!
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Kayann Short, BK Loren, Marilyn Krysl and Julene Bair sign Dirt at the hoedown.
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Every book launch needs a band: Tupelo Honey makes it real.
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Katie Stellpflug, owner of Artique Boutique in Kamas, Utah, meets editor Richardson's dirt.
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Karen Washington and Eban Goodstein talk Dirt at Oblong Books in Rhinebeck, New York.
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Author Julene Bair reads "Dirt Princess" at Mrs. Dalloway's in Berkeley, California.
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Reading with Jana Richman under the apple tree, country style, in Kamas.
Julene Bair and Deborah Koons Garcia lovin' Dirt at Copperfields Books in San Rafael, California.
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Mud painting at The King's English Bookshop in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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"Humankind, despite its artistic abilities, sophistication and accomplishments, owes its existence
to a six-inch layer of farmable soil--and the fact that it rains."
—Anonymous
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"But the land itself is chaos, and beneath the land that chaos has its own kind of order, missed by us because we are not thinkers of deep earth and what lives there." —Linda Hogan
"The only original sin is one of not paying attention, of not listening to the dirt beneath your feet." —BK Loren
"Living seeds and living soils are the foundation of living and lasting societies. We will liberate the seed. We will liberate the soil. And through that, we will liberate humanity." —Vandana Shiva
"Sheer delight is mostly what goes into a mud pie. Almost no one has ever eaten one, at least not a whole one."
—Chris Larson
"The only original sin is one of not paying attention, of not listening to the dirt beneath your feet." —BK Loren
"Living seeds and living soils are the foundation of living and lasting societies. We will liberate the seed. We will liberate the soil. And through that, we will liberate humanity." —Vandana Shiva
"Sheer delight is mostly what goes into a mud pie. Almost no one has ever eaten one, at least not a whole one."
—Chris Larson