by Berry Center | Jul 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
THE BERRY CENTER JOURNAL 2020 Download 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...
by mduncan | Nov 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
Friends, please enjoy our latest newsletter, wherein you will find insights into our work, program updates, photos of all our initiatives, information on events and visits, and much more. Happy Holidays from our family to yours, and we hope you will continue to help...
by mduncan | Nov 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
This piece appeared in the 2019 edition of The Berry Center Journal. If you are interested in receiving our future publications directly to your inbox, click here to sign up for our mailing list. To read the most recent issue of the journal without signing up, click...
by Berry Center | Jul 1, 2019 | Agriculture, Berry Center
THE BERRY CENTER JOURNAL 2019 Download The Berry Center Journal 2019 Friends, please enjoy the 2019 edition of The Berry Center Journal. Inside, you will find the highlights of a year’s work here at the Center. You will read in these pages about Our Home Place...
by Berry Center | Jul 1, 2018 | Uncategorized
THE BERRY CENTER JOURNAL 2018 Download The Berry Center Journal 2018 Friends, The Berry Center is proud to present our inaugural Earth Day Journal. You will find within its pages an overview of the good and vital work that we do here in New Castle, Kentucky, as well...
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...
by Berry Center | Mar 26, 2017 | Wendell Berry
The President of the University of Kentucky, Eli Capilouto, asked for input about whether or not to remove the Memorial Hall fresco depicting antebellum Lexington, Kentucky. The fresco is the work of Anne Rice O’Hanlon who graduated with a degree in art from the...
by Berry Center | Mar 26, 2017 | Berry Farming Program
The Berry Farming Program at St. Catharine College is working hard to “[d]raw succinct and tangible connections between education and communities and the land.”[1] Recent publications illustrate this effort. On February 7, 2016, Religion and Ethics Newsweekly featured...
