Agraria_Journal_Summer_2022

AGRARIA JOURNAL 2022 35 Suggested Readings and Resources Reprinted in part from BIPOC Farming Network newsletters We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy, by Natalie Baszile The Color of Food: Stories of Race, Resilience and Farming , by Natasha Bowens All We Can In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World, by Judith Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff The Bone and Sinew of the Land: America’s Forgotten Black Pioneers and the Struggle for Equality, by Anna-Lisa Cox As Long As Grass Grows: the Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice , from Colonization to Standing Rock, by Dina Gilio-Whitaker All We Can Save: Truth, Courage and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer Working The Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African-American Healing, by Michele E. Lee Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice, by Dr. Jessica Gordon Nembhard Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land, by Leah Penniman A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity and a Shared Earth, by Chris Smaje Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement), by Monica M. White On the Web “How Thousands of Black Farmers Were Forced Off Their Land,” by Kalli Holloway, The Nation, November 21, 2021 , h ttps:// bit.ly/3rJAHWM “Fannie Lou Hamer’s Freedom Farms Cooperative: Where Farming Meets Social Justice,” by Kiara Kamara, Agraria weblog, January 21, 2022 , h ttps://bit.ly/3LatExR . “Cup of Carver: George Washington Carver and the Biodynamic Movement,” by Jim Embry, Biodymanic Stories, Biodynamic Association, Nov. 10, 2018 , h ttps://bit. ly/3OulSkw . “Cooperative Economics & Civil Rights,” YouTube Video clip featuring Dr. Jessica Gordon Nembhard, https://youtu.be/_ TVIghQMkBg . Miscellaneous resources F.A.R.M.S 30000 — A legal non-profit, committed to assisting farmers and landowners retain land for future use of next generation farmers . h ttps://bit. ly/3xN2lGe Black Farmers Index — A directory of Black farmers in the United States, organized by region. https://blackfarmersindex.com/