Farmers and Climate Change

“This gripping book exposes the double burden of climate change in farm country, bringing readers into the living rooms of farm families torn between the demands of extreme weather and the demands of rural belonging in a divided society.”—Liz Carlisle, coeditor of Living Roots: The Promise of Perennial Foods “Petersen-Rockney’s richly ethnographic and deeply empathetic account of how family farmers are navigating climate change, often without naming it, will certainly make readers think differently about who and what is to blame.”—Julie Guthman, author of Wilted: Pathogens, Chemicals, and the Fragile Future of the Strawberry Industry “Why deny climate change while farming under its specter every day? In a politically charged corner of Northern California, Margiana Peterson-Rockney reveals a quiet choreography of denial and accommodation: farmers who publicly reject climate change but privately adapt to its punishing realities. Urgent and incisive, the book turns a nuanced eye toward a central agrarian challenge: what farmers can—and cannot—control, as climate uncertainty reshapes rural life.”—Nancy Lee Peluso, coeditor of The Social Lives of Land