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“If we don’t get sustainability right in agriculture first, it won’t happen anywhere.” – Wes Jackson, The Land Institute
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Cooperation Not Competition
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. Big John, as his grandchildren addressed him, was often called on to speak at...
Berry Farming Program Endures
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 Ecological Agrarianism Program will continue based upon the ideals that were...
City or Country?
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 clarify one’s thinking about this topic, but this essay of Mr. Berry’s in the...
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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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