Making the Case for a Small Farm Future ... & what can WE do?
Thu 31 Mar
|Assembly Room, Grosvenor Arms
Creative thinking on farming. Chris Smaje, author of 'A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity and a Shared Earth' will be in conversation with ffinlo Costain. Open to all. Donations invited for expenses.
Time & Location
31 Mar 2022, 19:30
Assembly Room, Grosvenor Arms, High St, Shaftesbury SP7 8JA, UK
About the Event
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More about the event:
Chris Smaje is a social scientist and anthropologist who is also a farmer on the outskirts of Frome, Somerset. For more than 10years he has been exploring ideas around what a truly resilient society might look like and in his book he makes the case for having more people working in agriculture or horticulture on small farms, serving local markets - predominantly their own households. The book has been welcomed:
'... brings intellectual rigour to the centuries-old demand for “three acres and a cow”.'—Simon Fairlie, editor, The Land magazine
'We are facing an existential crisis – with species extinction, climate catastrophes, desertification of soil, disappearance of water, pandemics of infectious and chronic diseases, hunger and malnutrition. Industrialized, globalized agriculture based on the myth that it feeds the world…