
Grain by Grain
A Quest to Revive Ancient Wheat, Rural Jobs, and Healthy Food
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Narrado por:
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Coleen Marlo
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Chris Sorensen
When Bob Quinn was a kid, a stranger at a county fair gave him a few kernels of an unusual grain. Little did he know, that grain would change his life. Years later, after finishing a PhD in plant biochemistry and returning to his family's farm in Montana, Bob started experimenting with organic wheat. 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.
But as demand for organics grew, so too did Bob's experiments. He discovered that through time-tested practices like cover cropping and crop rotation, he could produce successful yields - without pesticides. 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 even started producing his own renewable energy. 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.
Ultimately, Bob's forays with organics turned into a multimillion dollar heirloom grain company, Kamut International.
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This book is a good primer showing how this kind of food based, placed based economic development can work and how to look at your surroundings with new eyes to see possibilities.
A great primer on the business of organic farming
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Great story, Good research based information
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sorry but the narrator's voice & inflection is so distractingly bad, I could only take it in small amounts.
Very enlightening but the narrator voice is awful
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great story
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Grain by grain
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Reader is not great
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A third-generation Montana wheat farmer convinces his dad to try out an organically grown section, gets the hang of it, finds he can make more money at organic farming, converts the whole farm. Develops a thriving market for his organic wheat. Helps Montana develop an organic certification.
Plants some "ancient grains" that someone had given him, claiming they were from King Tut's tomb. That was impossible, but they did have some interesting qualities: gluten-intolerant folks were claiming they could eat it, other folks claimed other health benefits. Named this wheat kamut and developed a standard for it that is in place until this day. Eventually partnered with medical people and scientists to study the health benefits more rigorously and found that some of the health benefits were unexpected and amazing.
Tried growing fruit trees in an area considered too cold to grow them, so he went north to Canada for advice to plant in protected areas. Lost his orchard with some record-breaking cold weather and learned that for cold climates, using full-sized rootstock will lead to a hardier tree than using semidwarf or dwarf rootstock.
Tried planting vegetables in a seep and with a dryland control and found the dryland patch did much better. Continues to experiment with dryland produce and products.
It feels like everything Farmer Quinn did was successful, but the book shows that it was only through error, setback, and resilience that he was able to find the right path. I'm writing this months after I listened to it and my ability to remember these stories is a testament to this book.
Never too old to stop experimenting and learning. In farming, one has a limited number of tries. Bob Quinn has made the most of them.
I keep telling stories from this book
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also the voice and intonation used does not match the voice of the author so it sounds very inauthentic.
Good content poor performance
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Great Info, Odd Narration
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