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...
by Berry Center | Mar 26, 2017 | Berry Center
During February The Berry Center posted excerpts from Mr. Berry’s 2012 speech, “It All Turns on Affection,” The Jefferson Lecture for the National Endowment for the Humanities. It has been published by Counterpoint Press in It All Turns on Affection: The...
by Berry Center | Mar 26, 2017 | Berry Center
I will remember 2015 as the year that our efforts at The Berry Center to rebuild an economy that will support a diversified land conserving agriculture took a manageable shape. We have worked hard for the last four years laying a framework. There was plenty I didn’t...
by Berry Center | Mar 26, 2017 | Producer's Program
The Berry Center is developing an equitable local food economy that supports farmers and provides them with essential protections in the marketplace. We understand that much work remains to be done to put an economy in place that supports a healthy and diversified...
by Berry Center | Mar 26, 2017 | Slow Meat
By Mary Berry After something like forty years of going to farm meetings I think I can speak with some authority about the quality the meetings I attend. The first meetings I remember attending were with my father and grandfather. Why they took a determined to be...
by Berry Center | Mar 26, 2017 | Berry Center
By Katherine (Katie) Ellis It is a privilege to write to you today from The Berry Center. I am grateful to be a part of this important work in culture and agriculture and to be doing so alongside such wonderful people. The work of The Berry Center is deeply personal...
by Berry Center | Mar 26, 2017 | Farming
By Mary Berry Thinking about economics is part of everything we are doing at The Berry Center. That is clear, I hope, in our work to improve our local agricultural economy and with our work to use the Burley Tobacco Program as a model for agricultural policy that...
by Berry Center | Mar 25, 2017 | Farm To Table
By Sarah Fritschner Many people believe that getting local food into a city is a simple, straight line like this: A ————–> Z, where A is the farm and Z is the table. Unfortunately, the market doesn’t work in a straight line. Far from...
by Berry Center | Mar 25, 2017 | Farming
By Marry Berry Michele Guthrie, The Berry Center’s Archivist, recently found this quotation from my grandfather John Berry, Sr., “We agree to differ, we resolve to love, and we may cooperate to serve.” This was handwritten on the top of a church bulletin dated 1949....
by Berry Center | Mar 25, 2017 | Berry Farming Program
We are deeply saddened by the announcement of the pending closure of St. Catharine College, a school located in the heart of the state and at the heart of the Washington County, Kentucky community. Though St. Catharine College is closing the Berry Farming and...
