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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
Taking Stock and Moving Forward with Intention
We are grateful for your continued support of The Berry Center. We are putting Wendell’s writings to work by advocating for farmers, land conserving communities, and healthy regional economies. The close of one year and the start of another offer us a time to reflect, to take stock of the work of the past year, and to look ahead with hope and...
Response to the Recent New York Times Op-Ed on the Green Revolution
The New York Times published an op-ed written by Phillip A. Sharp and Alan Leshner and entitled “We Need a New Green Revolution” on January 4, 2016 (page A19). My father Wendell Berry, friend Wes Jackson (The Land Institute), and I wish to share our response to this op-ed submitted to the New York Times. It reads: Phillip A. Sharp and...
Protecting Farmers in the Marketplace
My father began the 2012 Jefferson lecture with this story, “One night in the winter of 1907, at what we have always called the home place in Henry County, Kentucky, my father, then six years old, sat with his older brother and listened as their parents spoke of the uses they would have for the money from their 1906 tobacco crop. The crop was to...
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