Mono Mutante: Eco-fiction Novella

"An exuberant dirt-splattered food adventure with a conscience." What if saving the planet starts with what's on your plate-and who's at your table? In Mono Mutante, the sixth book in the beloved Pedro the Water Dog Saves the Planet series, Tilly and her best friend Camas bikepack into the soy-soaked heart of Iowa to MC the Slow Earth Food Festival. Tilly is pregnant, the scenery is saturated with monoculture and factory farming, and Camas... is drinking too much. When a surprise inheritance leads them to a crumbling farmhouse, the ride becomes a riotous, eye-opening road trip through the hidden fault lines of Big Ag. Along the way, they meet a rogue cast of characters: a 102-year-old poet-farmer who speaks fluent compost, a young agrochemical crusader, and a food scientist mom with zero tolerance for empty calories. But beneath the farm-fresh satire and seed sovereignty chaos lies a deeper reckoning-with sobriety, self-worth, and the roots of regenerative love.