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Healing grounds, climate, justice, and the deep roots of regenerative farming, Liz Carlisle ; with illustrations by Patricia Wakida

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-216) and index

illustrations

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non fiction

Healing grounds

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Liz Carlisle ; with illustrations by Patricia Wakida

climate, justice, and the deep roots of regenerative farming

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

Foreword / Ricardo J. Salvador -- Can soil really save us? -- Return of the buffalo -- Black land matters -- Hidden hotspots of biodiversity -- Putting down roots -- Healing grounds