Farming while Black Soul Fire Farm's practical guide to liberation on the land
"In 1920, 14 percent of all land-owning US farmers were black. Today less than 2 percent of farms are controlled by black people--a loss of over 14 million acres and the result of discrimination and dispossession. While farm management is among the whitest of professions, farm labor is predomin...
| Main Author: | Penniman, Leah (Author) |
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| Other Authors: | Washington, Karen (writer of foreword.) |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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White River Junction, Vermont :
Chelsea Green Publishing,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction:
- Black land matters
- Finding land and resources
- Planning your farm business
- Honoring the spirits of the land
- Restoring degraded land
- Feeding the soil
- Crop planning
- Tools and technology
- Seed keeping
- Raising animals
- Plant medicine
- Urban farming
- Cooking and preserving
- Youth on land
- Healing from trauma
- Movement building
- White people uprooting racism.