ReGen
A New Future for Farming, Food, and Health
$34.54
- Hardcover
240 pages
- Release Date
4 September 2026
Summary
A century of conventional farming has left our planet with sick soil, accelerating the interlinked crises of food security, biodiversity loss, water pollution, and climate change. In ReGen, David R. Montgomery lays out a practical and productive vision for recovering soil health and safeguarding the future of food. The answer: soil-building regenerative farming.
In exploring this much-needed turning point for agriculture, Montgomery marshals more than a decade of research, in…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781324117742 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1324117745 |
| Author: | David R. Montgomery |
| Publisher: | WW Norton & Co |
| Imprint: | WW Norton & Co |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 4 September 2026 |
| Weight: | 395g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 160mm x 236mm |
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Critics Review
“With wildfire, flooding and El Niño dominating the news agenda, global food scarcity can hardly be far behind… But thankfully [Montgomery] has a plan in the shape of regenerative farming, honed from a decade of research, interviewing farmers and seeing how they restored degraded farms all around the world.” – Liz Else, ‘The best new popular science books of September 2026’ - New Scientist
David R. Montgomery
David R. Montgomery
David R. Montgomery is a professor of Earth and space sciences at the University of Washington. He studies the evolution of topography and the influence of geomorphological processes on ecological systems and human societies.
Montgomery received a BS in geology from Stanford University (1984) and a PhD in geomorphology from UC Berkeley (1991). His field studies have included projects around the world, and he is an elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.
He has received numerous awards throughout his career, including a MacArthur Fellowship and the Vega Medal. His books Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations, King of Fish: The Thousand-Year Run of Salmon, and The Rocks Don’t Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah’s Flood have all won the Washington State Book Award in General Nonfiction. Montgomery’s Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life was a finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing.
He also coauthored with Anne Biklé The Hidden Half of Nature and What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health. Most recently, he published his case for regenerative agriculture, Regen: A New Future for Farming, Food, and Health. His books have been translated into eleven languages.
Montgomery is also a coauthor of the textbook Essentials of Physical Geography with W. W. Norton.
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