Chris Smaje is a social scientist, writer and Somerset-based smallholder. He’s the author of the books A Small Farm Future and Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future. He writes regularly at www.chrissmaje.com and occasionally for other publications. He has served on the boards of the Land Workers’ Alliance and the Ecological Land Co-op. Paul Kingsnorth has described him as a “powerful, humane and practical thinker on our relationship to land and farming”. His recent book Saying NO… has been described as an important and timely response by Vandana Shiva and a “lively and superbly written polemic” by Joel Salatin