Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future

"Everyone in the food business needs to read this book. . . . [A] lively and superbly written polemic."?Joel Salatin, co-founder of Polyface Farm *Named the Inc. Non-Obvious Book Awards "Best Books of 2023" A defense of agroecological, small-scale farming and a robust critique of an industrialized future. One of the few voices to challenge The Guardian's George Monbiot on the future of food and farming (and the restoration of nature) is academic, farmer and author of A Small Farm Future Chris Smaje. In Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future, Smaje presents his defense of small-scale farming and a robust critique of Monbiot's vision for an urban and industrialized future. Responding to Monbiot's portrayal of an urban, high-energy, industrially manufactured food future as the answer to our current crises, and its unchallenged acceptance within the environmental discourse, Smaje was compelled to challenge Monbiot's evidence a