THE BERRY CENTER JOURNAL 2020
Friends, we are delighted to share the 2020 edition of our annual journal with you. Contained within is a generational look at the agrarian writings and works of the Berry family, and their longtime advocacy for a more just and humane farm economy in the United States.
Within, you will read John Marshall Berry Sr.’s speech to the US Senate defending the Burley Tobacco Producer’s Program, a foundational federal program that kept money and power in the hands of small farmers in our region.
You’ll find John M. Berry Jr.’s statement to the Democratic platform committee in 1992, an impassioned plea for policy built around the needs of farmers, not agribusiness corportations.
Wendell is featured twice in this edition, with his poem ‘Amish Economy’ set opposite an excerpt from a conversation with his friends, Michael and David Kline (Amish farmers from Ohio), that took place for the benefit of our WBFP students.
Finally, Mary Berry writes movingly about our newest initiative, a working and teaching farm right here in Henry County, Kentucky, ensuring our students a home and living classroom for generations to come.
We hope you will enjoy this publication, and encourage you to sign up for our mailing list below to receive updates and publications direct to your inbox, or, in the case of our annual journal, direct to your mailbox as well. Call us old fashioned, but we still believe in the printed page. Many thanks for your time and attention, friends.
Love the work you are doing!!
Thank you for all of the inspiration and continued work!
Thank you so much for giving the 2020 Berry Center Journal to us. I love the opening photograph! You are doing a good work, and I pray you will see much fruit from your labors.
We too believe in the printed page! On our bookshelves, in our home on our farm here in Ballard County–Dogwood Farm, where we produce 100 percent home-grown and grass-finished Hereford beef–we have whole shelf devoted to Wendell Berry’s inspiring books. His wise words have helped us through many a crisis. Our website listed below is so far pretty barebones, an outdated affair that a younger friend helped us put together in 2018. We would like to do better, with something akin to your attractive new website. We would also like to learn more about your educational initiatives with Sterling College.