Noah Sanders is a farmer and homesteader. He has been farming since age 16, starting out with a small chicken run on his parent’s land and eventually building his farm’s infrastructure and expanding his food production to include row crops, pastured animals, fruit trees, and honey, supplying his farm’s produce to restaurants and his local community.
In 2012, Noah published “Born Again Dirt,” a book encouraging families to embrace a God-centered agrarian lifestyle and family economy and to see the work of a farmer as a witness to God’s command for man to have dominion over the earth for God’s glory. Noah and his family live and work on their farm in central Alabama.
You can read about Noah’s farm on his blog at Redeeming the Dirt and learn more about his book at Born Again Dirt.
Praise for Born Again Dirt
Noah Sanders . . . has written a groundbreaking book . . . I say Noah’s book is groundbreaking because it is the first and only book I’ve ever read that looks at farming and agriculture from God’s point of view, as revealed in Scripture. Every Christian . . . who either grows (or has a hankering to grow) a garden, or be any sort of larger-scale farmer, needs to read Born-Again Dirt . . . [It] is destined to become a classic in the world of contra-industrial, Christian-agrarian literature.
— Herrick Kimball, Author of The Deliberate Agrarian Blog
“Early in the book, Noah Sanders lays out a natural and biblical foundation for sound agriculture practices. Then he shows how he and his young family have put them to work on their farm. He doesn’t give all the details needed for agronomy, livestock, etc. but does build a very helpful and encouraging framework. Mr. Sanders distinguishes agri-lifestyle from agri-business, highlighting problems inherent in today’s industrial agricultural approach. Recommended for anyone interested in a simpler, healthier, family lifestyle that grows healthy food to bless the local community.”
— Mark Einkauf, Organic farmer from Texas
“I think this is the most important book on farming and agriculture (second to Scripture) that a Christian can have in his or her library. Even if you don’t have control over any land whatsoever, this is a must-read.”
— Kyle Shepherd