Anne Biklé

Anne Biklé is trained in biology and natural history and has worked in the fields of environmental stewardship and planning as well as public health. Through writing and public speaking she explores humanity’s tangled relationship with nature through the lens of agriculture, medicine, and microbiomes. She is particularly enthralled with the botanical world and its influence on humanity throughout history. With the help of mulches and microbes, she has developed gardening practices that build and safeguard soil health and led to coaxing many an edible or ornamental plant into rambunctious growth or nursing them back from the edge of death. Her writing has appeared in various print and digital media and on radio and her gardening practices have been featured in independent and documentary films. Her latest book, What Your Food Ate: How to Heal the Land and Reclaim our Health, explores connections between soil health and human health and builds on themes from her first book, The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health.