A well written book outlining the trials and tribulations and eventually the demise of the small, family run farms. Thompson, who grew up in rural Appalachia has a lot of experience with farming. As a child, he worked with his grandfather, and as a student became involved in community gardens, organic farming and organizing farming activists. As an adult he became an organic farmer and a rural educator. He has fought farming injustices along side black landowners and more recently along side migrant farm workers. Throughout his life, he watched as family farms disappeared to large corporations or expanding urban development. The cost of farming is too much for a small farmer to make a profit. Farmers, his grandfather included, had to take on second and third jobs to make ends meet. As someone who grew up in Southwestern Ontario in a farming community I see so many parallels between the author’s account and what I remember from my childhood. Thanks to NetGalley and Chelsea Green Publishing for allowing me to read this ARC.