Farming while Black : Soul Fire Farm's practical guide to liberation on the land /

Farming while Black : Soul Fire Farm's practical guide to liberation on the land / Leah Penniman ; foreword by Karen Washington.

"In 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 predomin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Penniman, Leah (Author)
Other Authors: Washington, Karen (writer of foreword.)
Other title:Soul Fire Farm's practical guide to liberation on the land.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: White River Junction, Vermont : Chelsea Green Publishing, 2018.
Subjects:
Farms, Small > United States.
African American farmers.
African Americans > Agriculture.
African Americans > Social life and customs.
African American cooking.
Food habits > United States.
Farm life > United States.
Land settlement > United States.
Agricultural colonies > United States.
Agricultural colonies.
Farm life.
Farms, Small.
Food habits.
Land settlement.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Black land matters
  • Finding land and resources
  • Planning your farm business
  • Honoring the spirits of the land
  • Restoring degraded land
  • Feeding the soil
  • Crop planning
  • Tools and technology
  • Seed keeping
  • Raising animals
  • Plant medicine
  • Urban farming
  • Cooking and preserving
  • Youth on land
  • Healing from trauma
  • Movement building
  • White people uprooting racism.

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