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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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Hope in The Land
We still see, furthermore, that we are not helpless. Two great powers, if we will align ourselves with them and use them, are in our favor. They are land health and conservation. Land health, Aldo Leopold wrote, “is the capacity of the land for self-renewal.” And “Conservation is our effort to understand and preserve that capacity.” Land health...
The One-Act Opera, Payne Hollow, Premiered This Weekend
Shawn Jaeger's Payne Hollow, a one-act opera, will have its world premiere on March 14th and 16th at the Bard College Conservatory of Music. Payne Hollow is based on Wendell Berry's short play, Sonata at Payne Hollow (Larkspur, 2010), which depicts, in verse, the lives of writer and painter Harlan Hubbard and his wife Anna. In the early years of...
Reasons For Hope
A new year brings thoughts of resolutions and new endeavors. My resolution is to be more hopeful, in all things. But recently it has been a challenge for me to find reasons to be hopeful. Wendell Berry’s list of authentic reasons for hope, which I found in the foreword to a book in the Berry Center library, “Kentucky’s Natural Heritage: An...
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