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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
Wendell Berry on Censorship
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 University of Kentucky in 1930, and is a splendid example of the public art of the...
Succinct And Tangible Connections
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 PBS correspondent Judith Valente’s interviews with SCC students and faculty,...
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...
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