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RESTORING EDEN

Elizabeth D. Hilborn

Unearthing The Agribusiness Secret That Poisoned My Farm Community

An inspiring nonfiction narrative by an Erin Brockovich-like activist who galvanizes her rural North Carolina community to save their land and way of life.

Silent Spring meets Notes from a Catastrophe in RESTORING EDEN: Unearthing The Agribusiness Secret That Poisoned My Farm Community by internationally recognized environmental scientist Elizabeth Hilborn. A veterinary bee expert and disease detective, a North Carolina farmer and Registered Nurse, Hilborn is herself a force of nature. With absorbing writing and keen observations, Hilborn narrates her 2-year quest to solve an environmental mystery - uncovering the identity of the killer that poisoned her beautiful farm, causing insect and wildlife deaths and crop collapse. Part investigative journalism, part memoir, and part popular science, RESTORING EDEN is also the story of a tight-knit community of small family farms that becomes polarized but ultimately unites to defy the dictates of agrochemical companies, whose treatments destroy biodiversity one field at a time. A lyrical celebration of nature by a passionate citizen scientist who felt personally called to advocate for the land, earth, and creatures who don't have a voice, RESTORING EDEN ultimately offers hope - that citizens can create change, that reform is possible, that we can play a role in stopping the environmental devastation of our age and restore a healthful relationship with the Earth. Hilborn provides a front row seat to the insect and avian apocalypse - and a way back from the brink. Dr. Elizabeth D. Hilborn is a veterinary bee specialist and a senior environmental health scientist currently employed at the US Environmental Protection Agency. She trained as a disease detective with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She's published more than 50 peer-reviewed scientific articles about the effects of pollution on human and animal health in public health, medical, and environmental health journals. She lives on her family farm with her husband, animals, and fruit trees in North Carolina.

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Book Published 2023-08-08 by Chicago Review Press

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A thoroughly engrossing environmental murder mystery that challenges accepted wisdom and exposes the toxic price of conventional farming.

A beautifully descriptive, lyrical immersion in the natural world that's coupled with a detective story, reminiscent of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.

RESTORING EDEN conveys a stirring, forceful message about the environmental health of the planet... Gripping descriptions capture the beauty of Hilborn's property, as well as the subsequent anguish of witnessing a "hollowed-out world."

RESTORING EDEN is a must read. In its pages you will discover the secret agribusiness toxic chemicals that are contaminating the lives of everyone they touch. This means you. If you think this is someone else?s problem, or that you?re safe because you eat organic, read this. If you think one person can't make a difference, read this. If you think one community can't come together, read this. We owe big thanks to Elizabeth Hilborn for her courage, tenacity and love of life in all its forms.

An environmental memoir that stirs emotions with the author's enormous empathy for the wildlife who share her land.

Hilborn tackles one of the great issues of our times, in a novelistic way that sucked me in the further I read. It is a beautiful melding of our need for home in the context of love for life in nature and raises the alarm about problems of modern culture associated with the widespread industrialization of agriculture.

Another horror story - except it's all true... This stunning book recounts an EPA scientist's quest to uncover and understand what's unravelling her family's North Carolina farm. Her journey reminds us that unseen evil exists in the world, and that we can fight it.

I generally avoid the overused phrase 'page-turner.' But RESTORING EDEN is indeed a page-turner. Beautifully written, passionate, compassionate, deeply human, and deeply informed, this superb and crucial book should not be necessary - but it is. Very. The stakes could not be higher. Life itself is at stake and we are all involved.

RESTORING EDEN is a passionate, science-based, ecological detective story that teaches us to observe nature, notice when things are amiss, and right wrong. As she discovered the sources of agricultural chemicals extinguishing life in her wetland, Hilborn reveals the personal tolls the loss exacts and the costs she endures to coax neighboring farmers to rethink their practices for the health of their interconnected realms.

When Elizabeth Hilborn sets out to protect a struggling wetland on her North Carolina farm, she discovers that its fate - and her care for it - is shaped by family histories, neighborly relations, the limits of science, and the long reach of global agribusiness. RESTORING EDEN is a mystery, a memoir, a warning, and a powerful testament to one person's stubborn love for a place and all its inhabitants.