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Black Farmers Embrace Practices of Climate Resiliency
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YES! Magazine - Environment
“If you’re not affected by climate change today, that itself is a privilege,” climate activist Andrea Manning says.
But the same communities on the frontlines of climate impact are also on the frontlines of climate solutions.
A new generation of Black farmers is using heritage farming practices to undo some of the damage brought on by decades of intense tillage by early European settlers.
Now Black farmers are finding ways to capture that carbon from the air and trap it in the soil.
“We repurpose everything — old Christmas trees as trellises and branches as breathable cloche for frost-sensitive crops.” Jenkins explains.
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