by Berry Center | Mar 24, 2021 | Agriculture, Berry Center, Farming, News
THE BERRY CENTER 2021 SPRING NEWSLETTER Download The Berry Center 2021 Spring Newsletter Friends, we hope you enjoy our new 2021 Spring Newsletter. While 2020 was a grind for us and everyone else, the emergent signs of spring bring us hope and comfort as we start the...
by Michele Guthrie | Aug 12, 2014 | News
Today a visitor to the Berry Center asked an intriguing question: “Is there a book of Wendell Berry’s that would help one decide whether it would be better to live in the country or in a city?” Well, there is, no doubt, a book Mr. Berry has written that would help...
by Tanya | Jul 8, 2014 | News
John M. Berry, Jr. of Henry County, Kentucky has worked his entire life on behalf of farm families, during a distinguished career as a lawyer in New Castle, Kentucky and as a state senator representing the 26th senatorial district in Kentucky from 1973 – 1982. From...
by Michele Guthrie | Jun 11, 2014 | News
Recently I re-read Wendell Berry’s 2012 Jefferson Lecture of the National Endowment for the Humanities and I came across what I find so often in his writing – reasons to be hopeful. Here is the excerpt that inspired me: “The losses and damages...
by Michele Guthrie | May 8, 2014 | News, The Berry Center Archivist
There would be hope in effective public leadership if we had it. But ecological degradation is not a political issue in Kentucky; it is not much more a political issue nationally. And I don’t see help coming very soon from leaders in education. What I do see, and I...
by Michele Guthrie | Apr 1, 2014 | News
We still see, furthermore, that we are not helpless. Two great powers, if we will align ourselves with them and use them, are in our favor. They are land health and conservation. Land health, Aldo Leopold wrote, “is the capacity of the land for self-renewal.” And...
