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“If we don’t get sustainability right in agriculture first, it won’t happen anywhere.” – Wes Jackson, The Land Institute
Recent Publications
Lessons From “It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture And Other Essays”
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 Jefferson Lecture and Other Essays (Counterpoint, 2012). I was particularly...
Good Work For The New Year
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 know about running a non-profit when I started The Berry Center but there were a...
A Modern-Day Iteration of the 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 agriculture. A local food economy demand analysis conducted in Louisville in 2012...
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