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Soul Fire Farm ’s hard-nosed Guide to Liberation on the Land
Leah Penniman
Paperback
$ 34.95
Recipient of the twenty-eighth Heinz Awards for the Economy : Leah PennimanJames Beard Foundation Leadership Award 2019 : Leah PennimanChoice Reviews , Outstanding Academic Title“An extraordinary ledger … part agricultural guide , part radical pronunciamento . ”—VOGUENamed a “ Best Book on Sustainable Living and Sustainability ” by Book Riot
In 1920 , 14 percent of all demesne - owning US farmers were black . Today less than 2 percent of farms are control by black people — a loss of over 14 million acres and the result of favoritism and eviction . While farm direction is among the whitest of professions , farm labor is predominantly brown and tap , and people of vividness disproportionately live in “ food apartheid ” neighborhoods and abide from diet - related sickness . The system of rules is build up on slip demesne and stolen labour and take a redesign . Farming While Blackis the first comprehensive “ how to ” guidebook for aspiring African - heritage agriculturist to reclaim their dignity as agriculturists and for all farmers to understand the decided , technological contributions of African - heritage citizenry to sustainable agriculture . At Soul Fire Farm , author Leah Penniman co - create the Black and Latinx Farmers Immersion ( BLFI ) broadcast as a container for new farmers to share growing skills in a culturally relevant and supportive environment led by people of people of colour . land While Blackorganizes and expands upon the curriculum of the BLFI to leave readers with a concise template to all aspects of belittled - scale husbandry , from business provision to keep the harvest . Throughout the chapters Penniman uplifts the wisdom of the African diasporic farmers and militant whose work informs the proficiency described — from whole farm planning , stain fertility , source choice , and agroecology , to using whole foods in culturally appropriate recipes , deal stories of ancestors , and tool for healing from the harm associated with thraldom and economical exploitation on the land . weave throughout the book is the history of Soul Fire Farm , a home leader in the food justice movement .
The proficient information is design for farmers and gardeners with beginning to intermediate experience . For those with more experience , the Word provides a fresh lens system on practices that may have been taken for granted as ahistorical or rigorously European . Black ancestors and coeval have always been loss leader — and continue to lead — in the sustainable agriculture and food justice movement . It is fourth dimension for all of us to hear . “A moving and powerful how - to Holy Scripture for Black Fannie Merritt Farmer to reclaim the military control and the contributions of the BIPOC community of interests that introduced sustainable husbandry . ”—BookRiot.com“Leah Penniman is . . . reach the door for the next propagation of farmers . ”—CBS This Morning
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