REGISTRATION REQUIRED – All book discussion sign-ups announced at the beginning of the semester

• Book: HEALING GROUNDS: CLIMATE, JUSTICE, AND THE DEEP ROOTS OF REGENERATIVE FARMING by Liz Carlisle
• Discussion Leader: Dr. Amy Trauger, Professor of Geography
• Date: Wednesday, March 15, 6-8pm
• Location: Moore Hall 116
• Description: A 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. Healing Grounds 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 technical tricks for storing CO2 in the ground, but a holistic approach that values diversity in both plants and people.

Contact: Kora Burton, kla07590@uga.edu