Down The Dirt Roads By Rachael Treasure

Down the Dirt Roads

By Rachael Treasure

For Rachael, “being in a paddock means anything is possible”.

I enjoyed this book. What appealed to me first was how Rachael saw ongoing harm to soil on the land and our food chain in which we supply ourselves and our families. She sees another way to live on the land. Her friendships, colleagues and people she meets on her journey all contributed to how she sees the land and our future and how we can turn our selves around from destroying our planet and our livestock.

I enjoyed how she described so thoroughly thoughts and visions for how she would do things. I loved seeing her chain of thought about men farming and how we have grown into a world where they try to rule this part of our future, they try to rule a lot of our future and this is why we need more women like Rachael to step up and communicate with other women and let ourselves be heard.

The paragraph at the end that stuck with me was

“Too many, ‘nature’ is a drive away, reached it only when we take annual leave and pack the camping gear into the car. But nature is the everyday. From the bird that alights on your roof, the spider that is carrying out its life purpose under your sink, to the millions of living creatures in the soil that have been smothered by your hosed down path. Every one of us is already in the natural world, and people in urban areas have as much power as farmers to change the outcomes of the planet. “By Rachael Treasure.

A great read, I highly recommend this book if you love Australian stories and stories about the land.