Hand Hewn 3-Day Whole Hog Workshop

Three-day whole hog butchering workshop with breakfast, lunch, and dinner included. Sunday concludes after a late lunch.

$1,000

An evening with Georgia Green Stamper

137 S. Main St. 137 S. Main St., New Castle, KY

An evening with Georgia Green Stamper, author of Small Acreages: New and Collected Essays.  Presented by The Berry Center’s Agrarian Literary League and Agrarian Voices Lecture Series

Tree of Heaven Control Workshop

The Berry Center Farm 8462 Maddox Ridge Road, Turners Station, KY

The highly invasive Tree of Heaven (Ailanthus altissima) is becoming ubiquitous in the eastern forest with the heaviest populations spreading southward from Pennsylvania and westward from West Virginia; Kentucky woodlands are in its path. As with most invasive species, Tree of Heaven will choke out native vegetation, both through vegetative and biochemical processes. In addition, […]

Free

An Evening With Sarah Hall (RESCHEDULED FOR OCT. 12)

137 S. Main St. 137 S. Main St., New Castle, KY

An evening with Sarah Hall, author of Sown in the Stars: Planting by the Signs. Presented by The Berry Center’s Agrarian Literary League and Agrarian Voices Lecture Series

Beef Bash

Join Our Home Place Meat and The Berry Center at our first ever Beef Bash! Saturday, October 14, on The Berry Center’s lawn, we will launch our two key products: Rose Beef and Berry Beef. Local chefs who share our vision for strong agricultural communities will prepare and present “small bites” that highlight the meat’s […]

$30 – $50

Cattle and Forestry Field Day

The Berry Center Farm 8462 Maddox Ridge Road, Turners Station, KY

Join us for a three hour field day where local experts will educate and guide you on cattle price insurance, how to feed and finish cattle, and how to supplement your farm income with your woods. Lunch is included and will be served at the end of the event. This is also a great opportunity […]

$15

Kentucky Arts & Letters Day

The Locker 244 South Main Street, New Castle, KY

Join us for the 2023 Kentucky Arts & Letters Day

The Hog Killing at The Berry Center

The Berry Center 111 S Main St., New Castle, KY, United States

During this hands-on workshop we will focus on a pasture-raised hog, walking through the entire process of how to efficiently, beautifully, and practically take a hog from pasture to plate ethically and humanely. Henry County, Kentucky author Wendell Berry will bless the hog by reading his poem “For the Hog Killing” on Friday morning as […]

$1000

The Berry Center Library and Archive CLOSED

We apologize for the inconvenience, but The Berry Center Library and Archive will be closed Wednesday, Feb 7th through Friday, Feb. 9th 2024 for inventory of our new collection.

Writing Workshop: Georgia Green Stamper (Part 1 of 2)

137 S. Main St. 137 S. Main St., New Castle, KY

Join us for part 1 of 2 Writing Workshops with Georgia Green Stamper, a southern writer, speaker, and teacher. She is the author of three creative non-fiction books, and her essays have appeared in multiple anthologies. She contributes work regularly to Kentucky Humanities and other periodicals and newspapers. Registration will be available soon: https://www.berrycenterfarmandforest.org/homecoming