This chapter contains very similar themes to last week's chapter. Emphasizing black history is vital to increasing the diversity in agriculture and working to solve food justice issues. Watkin's story behind her family's successes is incredible, but Fannie Lou Hamer drew my attention significantly more because her methods could actually be replicated.
Hamer's 692-acre freedom farm is ideal. Her community garden and drives like the pig bank are amazing feats today, let alone during the discrimination in past times. "If you have a pig in your backyard, if you have some vegetables in your garden,” Hamer was fond of saying, “you can feed yourself and your family and nobody can push you around.” Although it is not to the same extent of using the words family or community to describe commonly owned farmland in Africa, it is as close as it can get to that in America.
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I also found the statement about trees and fungi sharing stress signals intriguing. for me this could be telling the trees to produce more seeds to replant that which has been destroyed or to store energy in the roots for the possibility to regrow from whatever is causing the destruction.
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