At a Distance - Chris Smaje on How Small Farms Could Fuel Our Future

Chris Smaje on How Small Farms Could Fuel Our Future

11/10/20 • 29 min

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Somerset, England–based farmer Chris Smaje, author of the new book “A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity, and a Shared Earth,” discusses incentivizing a new generation of farmers, the problems inherent with cheap food, and how reconnecting people with nature could impact the “bullshit jobs” phenomenon.

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