The festival is a fundraiser for farmers who are contributing to ASFA's work in advocating for a fair, nourishing and ecologically sound food system which will support more farms, not larger farms.

ASFA president Tammi Jonas said she hopes to encourage more young people to take up sustainable farming.

"We will be talking about Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) models but more generally solidarity economies and breaking out of commodity chains to reduce the vulnerabilities that farming is always in," she said.

"I just came back from Rome where the United Nations released the report on the state of the world's biodiversity - the first they have ever done. The report is damning of industrial agriculture and highlights that  all of the pesticide use, repeated tilling, overgrazing and deforestation are the key contributors to loss of biodiversity and climate change due to changes to land and water management.

"I have three kids and feel pretty convinced that their future is bad yet we are still cutting down trees. For me it's a no brainer that we have to shift to this kind of farming where we are planting trees to reforest where our predecessors logged. We have to start storing carbon and stop emitting green house gases."

Ms Jonas said at a time when Australia was suffering through drought and rivers were dying from the worst excesses of industrial export-oriented agriculture up north, many traditional farmers were looking to different ways to farm.

At the Farm Day Out, Ms Jonas and her partner Stuart will guide visitors through their small-scale farming system and on-farm boning room and kitchen where they produce their meats.

Afterwards, MC Costa Georgiadis will introduce musicians who will play in the barn-turned-event-space Belvedere as punters enjoy locally produced eats from food trucks including Danny's Farm, Lil Nom Noms and drinks from Captain's Creek and Holgate's Brewery.

Ms Jonas has been farming for 7 and a half years at Jonai Farms, where they have 120 pigs on 23 acres. 

AFSA's book Farming Democracy: Radically transforming the food system from the ground up will be launched at the festival.

The book shares the stories of eight small-scale regenerative farmers from across Australia, from vegetable growers to organic grain farmers and delves into how they grow, process and sell their produce and what it takes for them to farm the way they do.

The book aims to give practical insight into how farmers are working to build a fairer food system and what it costs to grow food fairly.

The festival will take place at Jonai Farms in Eganstown on March 17. Tickets available through AFSA's Facebook page.