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Recent Publications
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...
A Different Kind of Sustainability
By Sarah Fritschner Ben Abell often goes against convention. Unlike many Kentucky farmers, he didn’t grow up on a farm, and has never grown tobacco. And though the average age of farmers is over 60, Ben is just 30, and has already been farming several years. In addition, he has decided to become a certified organic produce grower, while chicken,...
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