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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
Hope For A New Place
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 to me, as it is many of you. When Mary discusses the importance of protecting...
Good Economic Sense
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 protects farmers producing anything from timber to tomatoes in the marketplace....
Farm to Table, Pay to Play
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 it. I believed in that A-to-Z trajectory when I first started working on farm-to-fork relationships...
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By Our Home Place Meat farmers, raising and processing the best livestock locally and humanely in a program based on the Burley tobacco cooperative model.
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