Three farms

the long version

Three Farms is about the people who farm the American soil - and about the complex world of money and technology that they now inhabit. For many readers, the word Farm calls to mind tranquil Currier and Ives scenes, and indeed most of our crops still grow on family farms. Yet agriculture is changing fast, and entrepreneurial control of our food supply is rapidly shifting out of the hands of small farmers and into the hands of those wise in the ways of high finance and national marketing. By following the lives of individual farmers Mark Kramer captures a complicated system in motion, and helps the reader make sense of what may become the most vital of all political questions: where will your next meal come from?