"Climate change is perceived to be a threat that emanates from the sky above, through holes in the ozone, or via century-defining storms. By coming together to restore these farmlands, we can not only heal our planet, we can heal our communities and ourselves. The task is great, but so is its promise. And it will ultimately require dismantling power structures that have blocked many farmers of color from owning land or building wealth. 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.Ĭultivating this kind of regenerative farming will require reckoning with our nation’s agricultural history-a history marked by discrimination and displacement. While feeding their communities and revitalizing cultural ties to land, they are steadily stitching ecosystems back together and repairing the natural carbon cycle. These farmers are restoring native prairies, nurturing beneficial fungi, and enriching soil health. 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. Still others are rotating crops for the native cuisines of those who fled the “American wars” in Southeast Asia. Others are rejecting monoculture to grow corn, beans, and squash the way farmers in Mexico have done for centuries. For another, it’s meant preserving forest purchased by her great-great-uncle, among the first wave of African Americans to buy land. For one woman, that’s meant learning her tribe’s history to help bring back the buffalo. A powerful movement is happening in farming today-farmers are reconnecting with their roots to fight climate change.
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