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Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’sPractical Guide to Liberation on the LandCOPY LINK IN DESCRIPTIONTO DOWNLOAD THIS BOOKLink >>https://maburkanginan.blogspot.com/?good=1603587616SINOPSIS : James Beard Foundation Leadership Award 2019:Leah Penniman Choice Reviews, Outstanding AcademicTitleAn extraordinary book...part agricultural guide, partrevolutionary manifesto.&#8213VOUENamed a Best Book onSustainable Living and Sustainability by Book RiotIn 1920, 14percent of all land-owning US farmers were black. Today lessthan 2 percent of farms are controlled by blackpeople&#8213aloss of over 14 million acres and the result ofdiscrimination and dispossession. While farm management isamong the whitest of professions, farm labor is predominantlybrown and exploited, and people of color disproportionatelylive in food apartheid&#8221neighborhoods and suffer fromdiet-related illness. The system is built on stolen land andstolen labor and needs a redesign. Farming While Black is thefirst comprehensive how to&#8221guide for aspiring African-
heritage growers to reclaim their dignity as agriculturists andfor all farmers to understand the distinct, technicalcontributions of African-heritage people to sustainableagriculture. At Soul Fire Farm, author Leah Penniman cocreatedthe Black and Latinx Farmers Immersion (BLFI)program as a container for new farmers to share growing skillsin a culturally relevant and supportive environment led bypeople of color. Farming While Black organizes and expandsupon the curriculum of the BLFI to provide readers with aconcise guide to all aspects of small-scale farming, frombusiness planning to preserving the harvest. Throughout thechapters Penniman uplifts the wisdom of the African diasporicfarmers and activists whose work informs the techniquesdescribed&#8213frm whole farm planning, soil fertility, seedselection, and agroecology, to using whole foods in culturallyappropriate recipes, sharing stories of ancestors, and tools forhealing from the trauma associated with slavery and economicexploitation on the land. Woven throughout the book is thestory of Soul Fire Farm, a national leader in the food justicemovement. The technical information is designed for farmersand gardeners with beginning to intermediate experience. Forthose with more experience, the book provides a fresh lens onpractices that may have been taken for granted as ahistoricalor strictly European. Black ancestors and contemporaries havealways been leaders&#8213an continue to lead&#8213inthesustainable agriculture and food justice movements. It is timefor all of us to listen.A moving and powerful how-to book forBlack farmers to reclaim the occupation and the contributionsof the BIPOC community that introduced sustainableagriculture.&#8213BokRiot.comLeah Penniman is . . . openingthe door for the next generation of farmers.&#8213CB ThisMorning ================*================ Tag thePDF - Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guideto Liberation on the Land Publishing Ebook PDF - Farming
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