An Original Audiobook Adaptation of Nourishment

What Animals Can Teach Us About Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom

By: Fred Provenza

Narrated by: Fred Provenza

Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins

Publisher's summary

"In Nourishment a wise observer of the land and the animals becomes transformed to learn the meaning of life."—Temple Grandin

**Reflections on feeding body and spirit in a world of change, adapted from the book Nourishment, read by author Fred Provenza**

Animal scientists have long considered domestic livestock to be too dumb to know how to eat right, but the lifetime research of animal behaviorist Fred Provenza and his colleagues has debunked this myth. Their work shows that when given a choice of natural foods, livestock have an astoundingly refined palate, nibbling through the day on as many as fifty kinds of grasses, forbs, and shrubs to meet their nutritional needs with remarkable precision.

In his book Nourishment, Provenza presents his thesis of the wisdom body, a wisdom that links flavor-feedback relationships at a cellular level with biochemically rich foods to meet the body’s nutritional and medicinal needs. Provenza explores the fascinating complexity of these relationships as he raises and answers thought-provoking questions about what we can learn from animals about nutritional wisdom.

On a broader scale, Provenza explores the relationships among facets of complex, poorly understood, ever-changing ecological, social, and economic systems in light of an unpredictable future.

This original audiobook program has been adapted from this groundbreaking research and book.

Praise for Fred Provenza’s Nourishment:

“Nourishment is a conversation between science, culture, and a greater spiritual or cosmological umbrella.”—Montana Public Radio

“Nourishment will change the way you eat and the way you think.”—Mark Schatzker, author of The Dorito Effect

“An absolutely fascinating topic, engagingly written. Fred Provenza will wholly up-end everything you think you know about what you are supposed to eat and why. Nourishment should be the first book read by every student of nutrition.”—Nicolette Hahn Niman, author of Defending Beef

“Once again, Fred Provenza shows he is one of the freshest and most insightful thinkers about the role of herbivores (and omnivorous humans!) in our food and land management systems. His clear evolutionary thinking is matched by his keen powers of observation of ecological interactions. This book is a landmark contribution.”—Gary Paul Nabhan, author of Mesquite and Food from the Radical Center

©2018 Fred Provenza (P)2022 Chelsea Green

A Must!

What a great book Thank you Fred for sharing your wisdom with us ! This book is so great on so many levels!

Absolutely beautiful book

I thoroughly enjoyed Nourishment. It is full of heart and wisdom and was indeed nourishment for my mind and soul. Thank you Fred for writing this book!

Great but surprising shift in focus

Great insights and perspective with revelatory findings on wisdom alive in all living things. The science and experiences he shares are excellent, and some of his theological and metaphysical musings are inspiring and well crafted… but those latter things ended up taking over the whole last few hours of the book- there was no real tie-in back to the main topic and threads of the book in its earlier focus.
Every chapter end is cut short for some reason.

Everyone should read this book

This book contains so much wisdom from so many different aspects of life. My life and perspective is surely changed as a result of reading it. The only issue is that it cuts off at the end of some of the chapters and moves to the next, like the very ends of a few audio files for the chapter were cut off and I didn't get to hear the last thoughts in them.

Great book and insights. Bad playback.

Wonderful insight and highly recommended content, but many chapters cut off abruptly and the authors thoughts were severed.

Fascinating, & a little wide ranging

Love the book, but as mentioned by another reviewer, the topic of nutrition/nourishment is not tied back into the concluding chapters. I do appreciate the concept of spiritual and metaphysical “nourishment” but expected more concrete conclusions and strategy about both human and livestock nutrition and grazing.

Also, as mentioned, the chapters are all abruptly cut short for some reason. This seems to be an annoying audio quality control issue. Hopefully this will be fixed soon. Otherwise maybe just get the kindle or paperback versions.

Regardless of all that, I really enjoyed listening to the author narrate his own book, and I imagined hearing wisdom filled stories being told to me by a grandfather elder figure, of which there are far too few in our world today. Thanks Fred for sharing your wisdom with us!

Thanks John for pointing me to Fred.

A beautiful book that I have been citing since beginning reading it, to friends, to family, to colleagues, to that person you get chatting to at the local food store about the importance of fat and the meaning of life! This is getting a second listen. This is a book I needed right now. Which fits with Fred looking back on one’s life and seeing connections and order like some divine script. Thank you to John Kemph and his Regenerative Agriculture podcast who introduced me to Fred Provenza and so many other extraordinary minds.

Quality Control

Worth a listen but every chapter is cutoff preemptively. The audio version is missing the conclusions to each chapter due to poor editing.