In Healing Grounds chapter 2, Romero-Briones’s ecocentrism thoughts helps others realize that the land is not something to own for human’s personal gain. It is something we are able to belong to. This is the only way we should be going about agricultural practices to be able to maintain the land we were given. What the land gives for us we should be returning in other forms and by respecting the naturality of it.
Chapter two highlights that regenerative agriculture is not only a set of practices but something that honors indigenous knowledge systems. The goal of regenerative agriculture is to ‘heal’ the damage inflicted by colonialism and the repetitiveness of taking advantage of the land. In order to make a significant change we need to be listening to what worked historically so we do not repeat our mistakes. Something that is missing is viewing or land as a gift not just something to exploit. We need to treat it as we would each other or it won’t be there much longer.
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Completely agree with the concept of us belonging to the land. I said something similar in my post. For myself at least, when I put my hand in the ground, and actually let myself feel the earth, you can feel how it's a part of you. We should respect the earth and the earth will respect us. In our current society, I think that our general outlook on the earth providing food for us is very skewed. Most people are not connecting to the source of their food in a meaningful way. It could be as easy is taking a barefoot walk!
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