As communities seek greater resiliency in the wake of economic upheaval, job loss, climate change and global food shortages, local farmers are seen as a key resource to help reinvigorate, or create, a diversified, regionalized, ecologically based food system. Farms with a Future explores the passion, creativity, and entrepreneurship thats needed to help family farms find their niche and remain sustainable and successful in an age of agribusiness and consolidation. What is a farm with a future? What will make it sustainable and resilient? And what key qualities and skills does a farmer need in todays climate to be successful? Rebecca Thistlethwaite addresses these and other crucial questions in this mustread book for anyone aspiring to get into small to mid-scale market farming, or who wants to make their existing farm more dynamic, profitable, and, above all, sustainable.
