Some Big Folks
in Support of Small Farms
With the right investments, smallholders can feed a growing planet while at the same time restoring degraded ecosystems and reducing agriculture’s carbon footprint.
– United Nations News Centre
“How we choose to eat today creates the landscape our children will inherit.”
– Joel Salatin
Polyface Farm, VA
“Once our personal connection to what is wrong becomes clear, then we have to choose: we can go on as before, recognizing our dishonesty and living with it the best we can, or we can begin the effort to change the way we think and live.
– Wendell Berry
“The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture”
“We have created a worldview in which we pretend we are separate from nature even though industrial man depends more and more on the resources of nature.”
– Dr. Vandana Shiva, International Forum on Globalization
“…that’s a really powerful and transformative experience to spend time in creation. It just resets your priorities, helps you see what’s really going on in the bigger world.”
– Curtis Millsap
Millsap Farm, MO
Wake Up Before It’s Too Late: Make Agriculture Truly Sustainable Now for Food Security in a Changing Climate
– United Nations Conference on Trade and Development