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Index
Cover
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 Chants
Chapter 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 Harvest
Seed 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?
Best Practices in Youth Programming
Youth 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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