#farming while black

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[mauricesmall]

What’s on the reading list right now?

[todayonthefarm]

I have been wanting to read this ever since I heard about it a month or so ago. I finally bought it at the conference this week. Its important I spend money when I can on things I believe in and I believe in this farmer, her farm, and her mission.

[queerpyracy]

'Farming While Black’ is a Guidebook to Dismantle Systemic Racism | Civil Eats

Farming While Black is the distillation of Penniman’s work on Soul Fire Farm, where she and her husband have spent the last seven years raising not just organic produce, but a whole new generation of empowered and thoughtful Black and Latinx farmers.

At first, Leah Penniman’s new book, Farming While Black, reads like any other aimed at new farmers. In it, she writes about finding land, crop planning, seed saving, and raising animals. When readers get to the chapters called “Healing from Trauma,” “Movement Building,” and “White People Uprooting Racism,” it soon becomes clear that Penniman set out to write much more than a handbook.

Farming While Black is the distillation of Penniman’s work on Soul Fire Farm, an operation in upstate New York where she and her husband have spent the last seven years raising not just organic produce, but a whole new generation of empowered and thoughtful Black and Latinx farmers. Penniman weaves together her experience on the land with the rich, untold history of Black and Latinx farming against a backdrop of what she calls food apartheid. The result is a revolutionary work that opens important doors of opportunity for life and livelihood on the land.

Civil Eats recently spoke with Penniman about her motivation for writing, overcoming the stigma of agricultural work, and why her book is relevant for eaters and farmers of any color. The conversation below has been lightly edited for clarity and length.

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[mauricesmall]

An important read.