“Leah Penniman’s Farming While Black is a remarkably thorough—and beautiful!—handbook for successful farming, with step-by-step instructions on how to acquire land, how to restore land, how to keep seed, and so on. If this book were only that, it would be one of the best on the subject. But this book is not only that. [It] shows us how we might repair our relationships with the land, which, given as we are the land, means repairing our relationships to ourselves." --Ross Gay, poet