(PDF Download) Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land Writen By Leah Penniman

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Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land

By : Leah Penniman

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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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Author : Leah Penniman

Pages : 368 pages

Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing Company

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ISBN-10 : 1603587616

ISBN-13 : 9781603587617

 

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