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(D.o.w.n.l.o.a.d) P.D.F Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land

Choice Reviews , Outstanding Academic TitleIn 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 predominantly brown and exploited, and people of color disproportionately live in "food apartheid" neighborhoods and suffer from diet-related illness. The system is built on stolen land and stolen labor and needs a redesign. Farming While Black is the first comprehensive "how to" guide for aspiring African-heritage growers to reclaim their dignity as agriculturists and for all farmers to understand the distinct, technical contributions of African-heritage people to sustainable agriculture. At Soul Fire Farm, author Leah Penniman co-created the Black and Latinx Farmers Immersion (BLFI) program as a container for new farmers to share growing skills in a . Join hundreds of thousands of satisfied members who previously spent countless hours searching for media and content online, now enjoying the hottest new Books, Magazines & Comics


Choice Reviews
, Outstanding Academic TitleIn 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 predominantly brown and exploited, and people of color disproportionately live in "food apartheid" neighborhoods and suffer from diet-related illness. The system is built on stolen land and stolen labor and needs a redesign. Farming While Black is the first comprehensive "how to" guide for aspiring African-heritage growers to reclaim their dignity as agriculturists and for all farmers to understand the distinct, technical contributions of African-heritage people to sustainable agriculture. At Soul Fire Farm, author Leah Penniman co-created the Black and Latinx Farmers Immersion (BLFI) program as a container for new farmers to share growing skills in a .

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Choice Reviews , Outstanding Academic TitleIn 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

predominantly brown and exploited, and people of color

disproportionately live in "food apartheid" neighborhoods

and suffer from diet-related illness. The system is built on

stolen land and stolen labor and needs a redesign. Farming

While Black is the first comprehensive "how to" guide for

aspiring African-heritage growers to reclaim their dignity

as agriculturists and for all farmers to understand the

distinct, technical contributions of African-heritage people

to sustainable agriculture. At Soul Fire Farm, author Leah

Penniman co-created the Black and Latinx Farmers

Immersion (BLFI) program as a container for new farmers

to share growing skills in a

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