Pastoral Song: A Farmer's Journey

"James Rebanks, a British sheep farmer, captures both the allure and challenges of his work while articulating the complex, worrisome issues that face farmers today. Inspired by Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, the author of the bestselling The Shepherd’s Life urgently conveys how the drive for cheap, mass-produced food has impoverished both small farmers and the soil, threatening humanity’s future. Rebanks offers lovely memories of the “rotational” farming his grandfather taught him as a boy in the 1980s before farming became industrialized. He also proposes solutions for using the land and animals more responsibly and sustainably in this eloquent and impassioned manifesto for change."