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Healing Grounds: Climate, Justice, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming by Liz Carlisle
Healing Grounds: Climate, Justice, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming by Liz Carlisle
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Healing Grounds: Climate, Justice, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming Contributor(s): Carlisle, Liz (Author) , Salvador, Ricardo (Foreword) |
US SRP: $28.00 US
Binding: Hardcover
Copyright Date: 2022
Pub Date: March 10, 2022
Physical Info: 0.56" H x 9.3" L x 6.32" W (1.02 lbs) 200 pages
A powerful movement is happening in farming today--farmers are reconnecting with their roots to fight climate change. For one woman, that's meant learning her tribe's history to help bring back the buffalo. For another, it's meant preserving forest purchased by her great-great-uncle, among the first wave of African Americans to buy land. Others are rejecting monoculture to grow corn, beans, and squash the way farmers in Mexico have done for centuries. Still others are rotating crops for the native cuisines of those who fled the "American wars" in Southeast Asia.
In Healing Grounds, Liz Carlisle tells the stories of Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and Asian American farmers who are reviving their ancestors' methods of growing food--techniques long suppressed by the industrial food system. These farmers are restoring native prairies, nurturing beneficial fungi, and enriching soil health. While feeding their communities and revitalizing cultural ties to land, they are steadily stitching ecosystems back together and repairing the natural carbon cycle. This, Carlisle shows, is the true regenerative agriculture - not merely a set of technical tricks for storing CO2 in the ground, but a holistic approach that values diversity in both plants and people.Cultivating this kind of regenerative farming will require reckoning with our nation's agricultural history--a history marked by discrimination and displacement. And it will ultimately require dismantling power structures that have blocked many farmers of color from owning land or building wealth.The task is great, but so is its promise. By coming together to restore these farmlands, we can not only heal our planet, we can heal our communities and ourselves.
Review Quotes:
"The book makes the case for a truly intersectional and relational effort needed to create a more resilient agricultural system in the face of climate disruption."
--Gabrielle McNally, Women for the Land Initiative at the American Farmland Trust
"Few people can turn 'nitrogen-fixing legumes' into such page-turning prose like Liz Carlisle can. In Healing Grounds, she turns her finely tuned ear towards farmers with roots in Africa, Asia, and the Americas, showing how modern methods can be linked with time-tested solutions to grow abundant food for all."--Nina F. Ichikawa, Executive Director, Berkeley Food Institute
"Climate change is perceived to be a threat that emanates from the sky above, through holes in the ozone, or via century-defining storms... A professor of environmental studies specializing in food and farming, Carlisle illustrates the confluence between agriculture and climate change as she shares the personal stories of Indigenous, Black, Latino, Asian, and other immigrant populations committed to the practice of regenerative farming...[she] offers restorative hope and practical help for this existential crisis."
-- "Booklist"
"Carlisle's Healing Grounds is worthy of your time and attention... Her work seeks to revive the spirit of POC farmers wounded on a bloodied battleground. To plead with non-POC RA [regenerative agriculture] leaders to stop and think about their role in US agricultural history and to curb their current cooption. To urge for rapid political support. We RA advocates must listen to POC farmers' stories of resistance and respect the sacredness of their healing grounds."-- "Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems"
