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Healing Grounds

Climate, Justice, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming

by Liz Carlisle
Ricardo Salvador
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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 revitalizing 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 color 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.

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    March 10, 2022

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      • ISBN: 9781642832228

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    • English

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      March 1, 2022
      Climate change is perceived to be a threat that emanates from the sky above, through holes in the ozone, or via century-defining storms. Its solution may also lie there, through wind turbines and solar panels that provide sources of renewable energy. But as Carlisle proposes, climate change may best be mitigated by casting our eyes earthward, to the ground beneath our feet, where soil microbes capture and store greenhouse gases. A professor of environmental studies specializing in food and farming, Carlisle illustrates the confluence between agriculture and climate change as she shares the personal stories of Indigenous, Black, Latinx, Asian, and other immigrant populations committed to the practice of regenerative farming. How can agroforestry (planting trees along with crops) stabilize an ecosystem while simultaneously offering a way for families of color to rescue underutilized land? How can the return of the natural migratory grazing patterns of buffalo lead to healthier native plant systems? Finding answers to these and other questions through the experiences of the dedicated individuals she profiles, Carlisle offers restorative hope and practical help for this existential crisis.

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