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

Author: Liz Carlisle

Narrator: Liz Carlisle

Unabridged: 6 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/20/2022


Synopsis

A powerful movement is happening in farming—farmers are reconnecting with their roots to fight climate change.

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 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.

By coming together to restore these farmlands, we can not only heal our planet, we can heal our communities.

About Liz Carlisle

Liz Carlisle holds a BA from Harvard University and a PhD in geography from the University of California at Berkeley. She is a Lecturer in the School of Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences at Stanford University. Her first book, Lentil Underground, won the Montana Book Award and the Green Prize for Sustainable Literature.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Amelia

An informative, sobering, and inspiring read by my incredible and dedicated professor. Whether you’re invested in the climate crisis, interested in US history and politics, or are passionate about regenerative farming practices, this book is a must-read. Beautiful artwork by Patricia Wakida, too!......more

Goodreads review by Natasha

Excellent, truly enjoyable and educational read. Carlisle does a really wonderful job of using individual profiles/stories to weave together larger histories and critical lessons about how the climate & food/ag crises are linked to colonialism, racial injustice, and damaged relationships to land. A......more

Goodreads review by Jo

A beautiful imagining of possible future where we work to repair our relationship with the land via anti-colonial, and anti-capitalist practices.......more

Goodreads review by Ryan

Damn. Good book. So many important ideas. Here are some of my favorite clips: Globally, soils constitute a carbon repository some three times as large as the amount of carbon stored in all the plants on Earth. This soil 'carbon sink' is also three times larger than the amount of carbon currently in th......more