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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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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,...
Wendell Berry on Censorship
The President of the University of Kentucky, Eli Capilouto, asked for input about whether or not to remove the Memorial Hall fresco depicting antebellum Lexington, Kentucky. The fresco is the work of Anne Rice O’Hanlon who graduated with a degree in art from the University of Kentucky in 1930, and is a splendid example of the public art of the...
Succinct And Tangible Connections
The Berry Farming Program at St. Catharine College is working hard to “[d]raw succinct and tangible connections between education and communities and the land.”[1] Recent publications illustrate this effort. On February 7, 2016, Religion and Ethics Newsweekly featured PBS correspondent Judith Valente’s interviews with SCC students and faculty,...
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