Carlisle narrated regenerative farming, using Guzman's life experiences with the Latinx immigrant farmworkers. Though the farming hardships of his family and returning to its ancestry farmland in Mexico. Points that to be effective will need to center around the farmers who do the labor. These are the people who possess a family history of ecological knowledge. This inherited successful agriculture is not new when compared to current practices of farming. These tried-and-true practices include intercropping, seed-saving, and soil, enrichment.
Guzman's found that the knowledge gained by the farm workforce, is often disregarded with racism assuming that the correct knowledge only comes from universities or white farmers. The injustice showing who is the expert and excluding farm works from decision making, land access and recognition of their knowledge. You need the labor's experience with the regenerative skills to regenerate the land.
The farmer works with regenerative knowledge were displaced through US trade policies, land grabs, climate changes, and political violence. Farm workers must be protected with land access, labor rights and immigration and helped against exploitation. Suggesting developing inroads for these people to become stewards of the land and not just cheap labor. Goals to maintain fairness include aiding marginalized farmers, fair distribution od needed resources, reviewing past harms, including the shifting of power base.
A bottom-up model of regeneration moves forward with recognizing the farmworkers are leaders, beyond just physical labor, a truer understanding support of their ancestral knowledge to be used on land that is shared being stewarded collectively, Letting solution come from the people most affected. Using a top-down model does not work.
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