Staff Pick – Trauma Farm by Brian Brett

Poet and farmer Brian Brett delivers an inspired exploration of what it means to be a small farmer in modern day Canada. Having started his farming career twenty plus years ago in Salt Spring Island B.C., Brett certainly has loads of experience from which to draw upon.

He rants about the challenges facing small farmers in the face of big agribusiness and gov’t regulations, but he also muses about the beauty of farming and the intangible benefits of being so closely connected to the earth. It is a compelling mix of criticism and celebration.