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

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Penniman, Leah
Published
White River Junction, Vermont : Chelsea Green Publishing, [2018]
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Contents
Intro; Praise for Farming While Black; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Black Land Matters; Chapter 1: Finding Land and Resources; Accessing Land; Farm Skills Training; Gathering Material Resources; Chapter 2: Planning Your Farm Business; Worker-Owned Cooperative Business Model; Farm-Share, Community-Supported Agriculture; Food Hubs; Communal Labor Practices; Writing Your Farm Business Plan; Chapter 3: Honoring the Spirits of the Land; Sacred Literature; Offerings to Azaka and Orisa Oko; Planting and Harvesting Rituals; Herbal Baths., Songs and ChantsChapter 4: Restoring Degraded Land; Remediating Soil Contaminated with Lead; Healing Erosion with Terraces; Agroforestry for Soil Restoration; No-Till and Biological Tillage; Chapter 5: Feeding the Soil; Soil Tests; Compost; Soil Ecology; Cover Crops; Chapter 6: Crop Planning; Annual Crops; Distant Cousins; Polycultures; Farm Layouts with Rotations; Chapter 7: Tools and Technology; Bed Preparation; Propagation; Transplanting and Direct Seeding; Irrigation; Weeding and Crop Maintenance; Harvest; Apparel and Gear; Chapter 8: Seed Keeping; Why Save Seed?; The Seed Garden., The Seed HarvestSeed Exchange; Chapter 9: Raising Animals; Raising Chickens for Eggs; Raising Chickens for Meat; Raising Pigs; Meat and Sustainability; Chapter 10: Plant Medicine; Species Accounts of Cultivated Plant Allies; Species Accounts of Wildcrafted Plant Allies; Growing an Herb Garden; Herbal Preparations; Chapter 11: Urban Farming; Laws and Land Access; Clean Soil, Clean Water; Growing in Small Spaces; Community; Chapter 12: Cooking and Preserving; African Food Pyramid; Recipes; Food Preservation; No Money, No Time; Chapter 13: Youth on Land; Why Youth on Land?, and Best Practices in Youth ProgrammingYouth Food Justice Curriculum; Chapter 14: Healing from Trauma; Historical Trauma: An Annotated Timeline; Internalized Racism; Healing Ourselves; Chapter 15: Movement Building; Litigation; Education; Direct Action; Land Defense; Policy Change; Consumer Organizing; Mutual Aid and Survival Programs; Chapter 16: White People Uprooting Racism; Reparations; Forming Interracial Alliances; Organizational Transformation; Calling In; Personal Development; Afterword; Closing Poem: Black Gold; Resources; Notes; About the Author.
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9781603587624 (electronic bk.)
1603587624 (electronic bk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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