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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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Strategic Long Term Plan for Kentucky Agriculture
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 1985 until 2000 he was general counsel for the Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative...
Hope in the New Marketplace
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 characteristic of our present economy certainly cannot be stopped, let alone restored, by...
John M. Berry, JR.: Outstanding Public Leader
There would be hope in effective public leadership if we had it. But ecological degradation is not a political issue in Kentucky; it is not much more a political issue nationally. And I don’t see help coming very soon from leaders in education. What I do see, and I see great hope in it, is what we could call leadership from the bottom:...
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