The publisher's note for Leah Penniman's must-read Farming While Black documents that, "In 1920, 14 percent of all land-owning US farmers were black. Today less than 2 percent of farms are controlled by black people—a loss of over 14 million acres and the result of discrimination and dispossession. While farm management is among the whitest of professions, farm labor is predominantly brown and exploited, and people of color disproportionately live in “food apartheid” neighborhoods and suffer from diet-related illness. The system is built on stolen land and stolen labor and needs a redesign." Soul Fire Farm provides a thorough guide for aspiring farmers of color to reclaim and understand the contributions of people of African descent in agriculture. Penniman provides historical analysis, descriptions of various techniques, such as seed selection and harvesting, and information about the food justice movement.