Healing Grounds

Climate, Justice, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming

Healing Grounds
Liz Carlisle, Ricardo Salvador
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Hardback
h229 x 152mm - 200pg
30 May 2022 US
9781642832211
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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 revitalising 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 colour 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.
"In this wonderful book, Liz Carlisle shares the dissidence against the dominion of colonial capitalism in these United States. She analyzes what America might become, and shares a map for the noble work ahead to get there. The best of it is that the ground beneath your feet will never feel the same again. "--Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved and co-director of "The Ants & The Grasshopper" "Liz Carlisle gets to the heart of the matter: You can' t have good farming or good food without social justice, and social justice is inextricably tied to race and land reform. The biggest issues in the United States are addressed here, directly and fairly. As important a ' food' book as we' ve seen. "--Mark Bittman, author of Animal, Vegetable, Junk and Creator, The Bittman Project "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 "In Healing Grounds, Liz Carlisle makes the compelling case that soil can save us from climate catastrophe, but only if the global Indigenous communities who originated soil stewardship practices lead the way. In a tone that is both authoritative and humble, Carlisle convinces the reader that the same extractive forces that wrest carbon from the soil, also yank earth stewards from the land. Further, there can be no ecosystemic redemption without addressing colonialism. Healing Grounds is a refreshingly truthful account of real roots of climate chaos and the authentic path to healing. "--Leah Penniman, author of Farming While Black and Co-Founder, Soul Fire Farm
Liz Carlisle is Assistant Professor in the Environmental Studies Program at UC Santa Barbara, where she teaches courses on food and farming. She is the author of Lentil Underground and co-author, with Bob Quinn, of Grain by Grain, and she has written both popular and academic articles about food and farm policy, incentivizing soil health practices, and supporting new entry farmers.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781642832211
Published: 30 May 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Island Press
Publisher: Island Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 200

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