Healing Grounds: Climate, Justice, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming

How Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and Asian American farmers are reviving their ancestors’ methods of growing food-and fighting climate change in the processA 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 bene