"A compelling agricultural story skillfully told; environmentalists will eat it up." - Kirkus Reviews When Bob Quinn was a kid, a stranger at a county fair gave him a few kernels of an unusual grain.
Her first book, Lentil Underground , won the Montana Book Award and the Green Prize for Sustainable Literature..
Liz Carlisle is a Lecturer in the School of Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences at Stanford University.
His enterprises include the Ancient Grain business Kamut International and Montana\'s first wind farm.
He served on the first National Organic Standards Board, and has been recognized with the Montana Organic Association Lifetime of Service Award, The Organic Trade Association Organic Leadership Award, and Rodale Institute\'s Organic Pioneer Award.
About author(s): Bob Quinn is an organic farmer near Big Sandy, Montana, and a leading green businessman.
By following Bob\'s example, we can grow a Healthy future, Grain by grain.
We don\'t have to accept stagnating Rural communities, degraded soil, or poor health.
In Grain by Grain , Quinn and cowriter Liz Carlisle, author of Lentil Underground , show how his story can become the story of American agriculture.
Ultimately, Bob\'s forays with organics turned into a multimillion dollar heirloom Grain company, Kamut International.
And he learned that the Grain he first tasted at the fair was actually a type of Ancient wheat, one that was proven to lower inflammation rather than worsening it, as modern Wheat does.
He even started producing his own renewable energy.
Regenerative organic farming allowed him to grow fruits and vegetables in cold, dry Montana, providing a source of local produce to families in his hometown.
He discovered that through time-tested practices like cover cropping and crop rotation, he could produce successful yields--without pesticides.
But as demand for organics grew, so too did Bob\'s experiments.
In the beginning, his concern wasn\'t health or the environment; he just wanted to make a decent living and some chance encounters led him to organics.
Years later, after finishing a PhD in plant biochemistry and returning to his family\'s farm in Montana, Bob started experimenting with organic wheat.
Little did he know, that Grain would change his life. "A compelling agricultural story skillfully told; environmentalists will eat it up." - Kirkus Reviews When Bob Quinn was a kid, a stranger at a county fair gave him a few kernels of an unusual grain
