City of Dirt: A Field Guide to the Living City

City of Dirt: A Field Guide to the Living City invites you to see the world in a revolutionary new way. It reframes our entire agricultural and ecological landscape through the powerful metaphor of a living, breathing metropolis waiting to be discovered right beneath our feet. This book is a journey that reimagines: The Foundation: The soil is not inert dirt, but the city's living infrastructure; water is its commerce; and the air is its energy grid. The Architecture: Regenerative practices like no-till farming, polycultures, and cover cropping are presented as the blueprints for a resilient and beautiful city, replacing the vulnerable "suburbs" of monoculture. The Citizens: Plants and animals are the city's industrious inhabitants, each with specific civic duties-from the nitrogen-fixing bacteria running the public utilities to the earthworms serving as sanitation engineers. Our Role: The book casts the reader not as a factory manager imposing control, but as a humble and observant "Steward," a city manager whose goal is to help the city thrive on its own terms. Covering everything from the microscopic life in the soil to the creation of a thriving local economy and the sacred act of saving seeds, City of Dirt is more than a guide to gardening or farming-it is a map to a more hopeful, abundant, and collaborative future.

• | Author: Jessic Millman
• | Publisher: Independently Published
• | Publication Date: Aug 30, 2025
• | Number of Pages: 156 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-13: 9798262896981