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...
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...