HEALING GROUNDS

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 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