by Berry Center | Mar 26, 2017 | Wendell Berry
From A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural reprinted in the Whole Earth Catalog 1969 First there was Civil Rights, and then there was the War, and now it is the Environment. The first two of this sequence of causes have already risen to the top of the...
by Berry Center | Mar 26, 2017 | Berry Center
We are grateful for your continued support of The Berry Center. We are putting Wendell’s writings to work by advocating for farmers, land conserving communities, and healthy regional economies. The close of one year and the start of another offer us a time to reflect,...
by Berry Center | Mar 26, 2017 | Agriculture
The New York Times published an op-ed written by Phillip A. Sharp and Alan Leshner and entitled “We Need a New Green Revolution” on January 4, 2016 (page A19). My father Wendell Berry, friend Wes Jackson (The Land Institute), and I wish to share our response to...
by Berry Center | Mar 26, 2017 | Producer's Program
My father began the 2012 Jefferson lecture with this story, “One night in the winter of 1907, at what we have always called the home place in Henry County, Kentucky, my father, then six years old, sat with his older brother and listened as their parents spoke of the...
by Berry Center | Mar 26, 2017 | Farming
By Sarah Fritschner Ben Abell often goes against convention. Unlike many Kentucky farmers, he didn’t grow up on a farm, and has never grown tobacco. And though the average age of farmers is over 60, Ben is just 30, and has already been farming several years. In...
