Arguing for a Small Farm Future

Chris Smaje, author of A Small Farm Future, writes about the urgent need to build a society based around small-scale and diverse farming systems. We include en excerpt from his book in which he predicts a future where, “you or your descendants are trying to figure out how to furnish your needs from your locality, probably by furnishing many of them for yourself, because you have few other choices.”

 

Arguing for a small farm future