Christopher Hall is an artist and agriculturalist, he has worked equally in the urban performing arts world and the rural farming world. He has been politically active in redevelopment, farmers' rights and is president of the board of the farmers' market and treasurer of the chamber of commerce where he lives. Mr. Hall graduated from Earlham College and attended UC Irvine prior to founding a performing arts organization in San Diego and then moving north to homestead.

I have sought to cultivate compassionate social action in all my endeavors. To this purpose, my work has included producing dozens of critically acclaimed performances and festivals, participating in long-term urban redevelopment planning, homesteading, fundraising for the arts, and starting up two farmers' markets.

This book is one such endeavor, and I hope to inspire readers to act compassionately. Homesteading has offered me more than a decade to research and explore our society from a distant perch nestled in a rurally isolated and generationally impoverished region. I have approached my critique of society as I would a play script, and this book is the production of it.