Anne Biklé in conversation with Ross Evelsizer | What Your Food Ate | Conversation, Q&A, and Signing

Name: Anne Biklé in conversation with Ross Evelsizer | What Your Food Ate | Conversation, Q&A, and Signing
Start: 2025-09-08T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Pulpit Rock Brewing Company

Schedule

Mon, 08 Sep, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Pulpit Rock Brewing Company | Decorah, IA

Who: Anne Biklé
What: an evening celebrating her book, What Your Food Ate: How to Restore Our Land and Reclaim Our Health
Where: Pulpit Rock Brewing events room
When: Monday, 9/8 at 7:00pm

Join Anne Biklé (co-author, What Your Food Ate: How to Restore Our Land and Reclaim Our Health) and NEIA RC&D Natural Resource Projects Director, Ross Evelsizer, for a conversation and Q&A session followed by a book signing on Monday, September 8 at 7pm at Pulpit Rock Brewing at 207 College Dr., Decorah. Everyone is invited to this free event sponsored by the Oneota Valley Literary Foundation, with support from Pulpit Rock Brewing and Dragonfly Books.

David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé take us far beyond the well-worn adage to deliver a new truth: the roots of good health start on farms. What Your Food Ate marshals evidence from recent and forgotten science to illustrate how the health of the soil ripples through to that of crops, livestock, and ultimately us. The long-running partnerships through which crops and soil life nourish one another suffuse plant and animal foods in the human diet with an array of compounds and nutrients our bodies need to protect us from pathogens and chronic ailments. Unfortunately, conventional agricultural practices unravel these vital partnerships and thereby undercut our well-being. Can farmers and ranchers produce enough nutrient-dense food to feed us all? Can we have quality and quantity? With their trademark thoroughness and knack for integrating information across numerous scientific fields, Montgomery and Biklé chart the way forward. Navigating discoveries and epiphanies about the world beneath our feet, they reveal why regenerative farming practices hold the key to healing sick soil and untapped potential for improving human health. Humanity’s hallmark endeavors of agriculture and medicine emerged from our understanding of the natural world—and still depend on it. Montgomery and Biklé eloquently update this fundamental reality and show us why what’s good for the land is good for us, too. What Your Food Ate is a must-read for farmers, eaters, chefs, doctors, and anyone concerned with reversing the modern epidemic of chronic diseases and mitigating climate change.

Anne Biklé is the co-author of two books, What Your Food Ate and The Hidden Half of Nature. Both are collaborations with her spouse, geologist David Montgomery. Biklé draws on her background in biology to explore humanity’s relationship with nature through the lens of agriculture, soil and food. Biklé’s work has appeared in print and digital media including Nautilus, Natural History and Best Health as well as independent and documentary films, podcasts and radio programs focused on farming, food and human health.

This event is part of Dragonfly Books and the Oneota Valley Literary Foundation’s robust author event series, which brings top-notch writers of all genres to Northeast Iowa to lead in conversations about literature and writing. To learn more about this event and other events with Dragonfly Books, visit www.dragonflybooks.com.
If you find that you can't make it to the event but would still like to purchase any books from this author talk, give Dragonfly Books a call at 563-382-4275. Our staff will be glad to reserve a book, have it autographed for you, and shipped out as needed.