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The Berry Center
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The Berry Center was started in 2011 to continue the agricultural work of John Berry, Sr. and his sons Wendell Berry and John Berry, Jr. John Berry, Sr. was a staunch advocate for small farmers and land conserving economies. His sons took up his work and have continued it. The Berry Center has now taken it up, and is focused on issues confronting small farming families in Kentucky and around the country. We are asking and trying to answer two of the most essential questions of our time; “What will it take for farmers to be able to afford to farm well?” and “How do we become a culture that will support good land use?” These questions are nowhere in the public discourse and yet the answers will go a long way in solving the most serious issues we now face. Our focus may shift because of need, but it will not move from what we believe to be the central issue of our time: the need for a healthy and sustainable agriculture in this country.
Brooks Lamb - LOVE FOR THE LAND - Agrarian Voices 2024
Friends, we are pleased to present, right here from The Agrarian Culture Center at The Berry Center, an evening with our friend Brooks Lamb, author of LOVE FOR THE LAND: LESSONS FROM FARMERS WHO PERSIST IN PLACE, a book which was recently called “Raw, beautiful, and inspiring… All in all, Love for the Land … merits consideration as a foundational text for the ‘New Agrarianism’ in the South and across the U.S.” in a review at Front Porch Republic.
You can find your copy of LOVE FOR THE LAND and many other wonderful agrarian titles available at The Bookstore at The Berry Center, either in person or online at berrycenterbookstore.com
You can find your copy of LOVE FOR THE LAND and many other wonderful agrarian titles available at The Bookstore at The Berry Center, either in person or online at berrycenterbookstore.com
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Indra Shekhar Singh on India's Farmer Protest Movement - The Berry Center Agrarian Voices Lecture
Просмотров 2745 месяцев назад
Friends, we are happy to share a fascinating and timely (and experimental!) addition to our Agrarian Voices series. Join us for a conversation with our friend, Indian agricultural journalist Indra Shekhar Singh, about the recently re-emergent farm protests in India and elsewhere on the globe. We'll be talking history, economics, and policy in an agricultural system with similar roots to our own...
Belonging In Kentucky: The Life And Work Of bell hooks - Agrarian Voices Lecture Series 2024
Просмотров 2175 месяцев назад
The Berry Center's Agrarian Voices Lecture Series presented with support by The Josephine Ardery Foundation is pleased to share “Belonging in Kentucky: The Life and Work of bell hooks” Dr. Megan Feifer and Abby Houston, of Berea College, and Dr. Leah Bayens, of The Berry Center’s Farm and Forest Institute, discuss the remarkable life, work, and legacy of the late Kentucky author bell hooks. In ...
Sown In The Stars with Dr Sarah Hall - Agrarian Voices 2024
Просмотров 2236 месяцев назад
The Berry Center, with support from the Josephine Ardery Foundation, is pleased to present Berea College professor and author Dr. Sarah Hall and her book, Sown In The Stars: Planting By The Signs in this installment of our 2024 Agrarian Voices lecture series. Sown In The Stars is a beautifully rendered work of cultural anthropology, featuring interviews and stories from Kentucky farmers who fol...
Helen Rebanks and Nick Offerman in Conversation: The Bookstore At The Berry Center
Просмотров 1 тыс.8 месяцев назад
Friends, join us in welcoming our dear friends Helen Rebanks, author of the wonderful new memoir The Farmer’s Wife: My Life In Days, and Nick Offerman, professional funnyman and sometimes farmhand. We know you will love to hear Helen’s stories of farming in the Lake District of England, the importance of keeping a household, and where good food and good land use meet. If you would like to pick ...
Georgia Green Stamper - My Small Acreages: The Importance of Saving Local and Family Stories
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Join us for an evening with Georgia Green Stamper as as she presents her lecture entitled "My Small Acreages: The Importance of Saving Local and Family Stories" based on her award-winning book "Small Acreages: New and Collected Essays". With wisdom and humor and compassion, Stamper reminds all readers that if we strive to unite with the universe, we must pay attention to the 'small acreages tha...
The Berry Center presents: Kentucky Arts And Letters Day 2023
Просмотров 1989 месяцев назад
Friends, we are delighted to present the full recording of Kentucky Arts and Letters Day 2023. This year we are thrilled to be joined by the following authors: Wendell Berry, Tanya Berry, Kentucky Poet Laureate Silas House, Maurice Manning, Frank X Walker, Gray Zeitz, George Ella Lyon, Crystal Wilkinson, Robert Gipe, Erik Reece, Ron Davis AKA upfromsumdirt, Bernard Clay, and Trina Peiffer. As a...
The Berry Center presents: Kentucky Arts and Letters Day 2022
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Friends, welcome to The Berry Center's Kentucky Arts and Letters Day 2022! This year we are thrilled to be joined by: Wendell Berry, Maurice Manning, Frank X. Walker, Gray Zeitz, Noah Adams, Erik Reece, Leatha Kendrick, Jonathan Greene, Dobree Adams, Melva Sue Priddy, Mark Schimmoeller, Arwen Donahue, Mary Ann Taylor-Hall, and Bobbie Ann Mason. The program will also include a remembrance of our...
A Plan To Bring Stability To Our Agricultural Economy - Mary Berry and Beth Douglas
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Friends, enjoy our next Josephine Ardery Foundation Distinguished Lecture, featuring a conversation between Mary Berry, Executive Director of The Berry Center, and Beth Douglas, director of Our Home Place Meat. They'll be talking through the economics of beef in our region, and our work to make good farming pay fairly through the cooperative model. It's sure to be a treat, so make sure you are ...
What A Good Farm Can Teach: With Mary Berry
Просмотров 2742 года назад
The Berry Center and the Kentucky Historical Society's Kentucky Local History Trust Fund present the pilot installment of The Berry Center's Local History Lecture Series, featuring 'What a Good Farm Can Teach' by The Berry Center Executive Director Mary Berry.
Economic Development in Rural Communities: Mary Berry And Henry Co. Judge-Executive John Logan Brent
Просмотров 1842 года назад
The Berry Center Executive Director Mary Berry sits down with Henry County Judge-Executive and TBC board member John Logan Brent to talk Economic Development in Rural Places. Judge Brent's agrarian vision has been instrumental in many of the key programmatic efforts we get up to here at the Center, and we know you'll enjoy this wide-ranging conversation about Home Places, rural economies, farmi...
Kentucky Humanities: 50 Years of Telling Kentucky's Story with Bill Goodman | The Berry Center
Просмотров 712 года назад
Friends, tonight is the night for the next installment of our Josephine Ardery Foundation Distinguished Lecture Series featuring Kentucky Humanities Council director (and longtime Kentucky Television hall of famer) Bill Goodman. You'll hear about the good work of local history being done by the good folks at Kentucky Humanities with their #thinkhistory and #thinkhumanities radio campaigns, and ...
The Berry Center Farm Legacy Project
Просмотров 4292 года назад
Support The Legacy Campaign at www.berrycenter.org/donate. THE LEGACY CAMPAIGN FOR THE BERRY CENTER FARM IMAGINE: Student farmers from throughout Kentucky and the nation learning the best practices of sustainable, responsible farming on a fertile, verdant farm in the heart of Henry County, Kentucky, and that same farm is a learning laboratory for our independent family livestock farmers. This k...
About The Berry Center
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Mary Berry and Foxhollow farmer Maggie Keith discuss the mission and vision of The Berry Center and why the work we are doing is so important to preserve the legacy of of Wendell Berry and the entire Berry Family. The Berry Center’s desire and the reason for its existence is to work on the problems of industrialism. Not just the symptoms of the problems. The media’s collection of popular emerge...
2022 Earth Day Reading #4 by Mary Berry
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Happy Earth Day 2022 from everyone at The Berry Center! In celebration, we are sharing our fourth and final reading by Mary Berry from her father Wendell Berry’s essay “Conservation and Local Economy.” This reading explores the necessity of community and the standards necessary for community to flourish. We must change in order to stop the destruction of our communities and landscapes. You can ...
2022 Earth Day Reading #3 by Mary Berry
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2022 Earth Day Reading #3 by Mary Berry
2022 Earth Day Reading #2 by Mary Berry
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2022 Earth Day Reading #2 by Mary Berry
2022 Earth Day Reading #1 by Mary Berry from "Conservation and Local Economy" essay by Wendell Berry
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2022 Earth Day Reading #1 by Mary Berry from "Conservation and Local Economy" essay by Wendell Berry
'For The Hog Killing' by Wendell Berry
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'For The Hog Killing' by Wendell Berry
The Berry Center Lecture Series presents: The Work Of Neighborliness with Virginia Berry Aguilar
Просмотров 2952 года назад
The Berry Center Lecture Series presents: The Work Of Neighborliness with Virginia Berry Aguilar
A Portrait of Black Religious Life In Henry County with Laura Levens and John Inscore Essick
Просмотров 1142 года назад
A Portrait of Black Religious Life In Henry County with Laura Levens and John Inscore Essick
The Berry Center Lecture Series presents: 'The Liberal Arts Farmer' by Dr Leah Bayens
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The Berry Center Lecture Series presents: 'The Liberal Arts Farmer' by Dr Leah Bayens
Mary Berry reads "A Standing Ground" written by Wendell Berry
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Mary Berry reads "A Standing Ground" written by Wendell Berry
"Solving For Pattern" by Wendell Berry - Excerpt IV - Read by Mary Berry
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"Solving For Pattern" by Wendell Berry - Excerpt IV - Read by Mary Berry
"Solving For Pattern" by Wendell Berry - Excerpt III - Read by Mary Berry
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"Solving For Pattern" by Wendell Berry - Excerpt III - Read by Mary Berry
"Solving For Pattern" by Wendell Berry - Excerpt II - Read by Mary Berry
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"Solving For Pattern" by Wendell Berry - Excerpt II - Read by Mary Berry
Mary Berry reads an excerpt from her father Wendell Berry's essay "Solving for Pattern"
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Mary Berry reads an excerpt from her father Wendell Berry's essay "Solving for Pattern"
The Untold Story: Henry County Farmers and The Tobacco Program - Tom Grissom
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The Untold Story: Henry County Farmers and The Tobacco Program - Tom Grissom
Our Home Place Meat: Meet Your Farmer - Valley Spirit Farm
Просмотров 3524 года назад
Our Home Place Meat: Meet Your Farmer - Valley Spirit Farm
Wonderful interview and conversation!
This idiot Indra is just promoting his own prejudices against the government of India and has Zero Ground level reality. In few days, we have election result. I am sure this fellow will now show his face anywhere after results, bcoz ppl of India will vote for BJP. His propaganda will go in dustbin. Wait and watch.
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50 years ago. Is this about urban agriculture and city farming before it is now known?
Loved what Indra shared
🤦 Promo SM
Great discussion.
2:58. Liking the artwork
10 years later, the grocery store price has sky rocket 🚀 making the average Joe broke and it'll keep rise if nothing is done.
Love this interview...love you both! I read The Farmer's Wife and enjoyed it very much! I'm a homesteading woman in West Virginia and I relate very much to Helen's words. I oversee our home and take great pride...feel a great responsibility for my homemaking tasks. While I spear-headed our lifestyle, my family is totally into it! We raise poultry for meat and eggs, grow huge gardens, cook from scratch, homeschool, and use herbal medicine. We love knowing the skills, learning every day, eating wholesome/homemade foods, and all the rest. Thank you, Helen, for giving voice to the "all-in" homemaker!
British student here! I grew up with family dinners being near on daily, and they are some of my most treasured memories. Now I’m at uni, I frequently make dinner for my friends and get them all around my table for good food and good company.
This interview is so fantastic ! Bravo!!!
Thanks so much to Nick, Helen, and The Berry Center. The particulars of this good conversation about a book, a friendship, a farm, and food remind me of Wendell's thought from long ago that "A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other's lives." May good work of all kinds flourish.
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I stopped in Carmichaels on a whim. A night that required a scarf in early 2019. A reading was about to happen, so I stayed, and Ed mentioned Henry County. I told him thats where I was from, and that little piece of common ground gave us permission to chat like we were cousins. He rented a house from Wendell for a time, a house I've passed thousands of times. Ed, Wendell, and Harlan all living right here near me feels like permission to chase this writing thing. Ed has been gone 2 years today.
This is such great, vital work. Thank you for sharing it, Virginia. I am a deep admirer of Wendell's writing and am so grateful that the Berry Center is continuing this work. I have been thinking warmly of the Great Books program that my mother helped to lead when I was young, which I loved. Now my daughter is 11 and I want to do the same for her. But I love the agrarian focus of ALL. I'm inspired to see what we can do here in Racine County, WI that takes a similar form. We live in the city and farm honeybees. Rural or urban, we all need rich stories born of common work that hold our communities together, don't we?
What a way to end. 👌🏾👏🏾
Tobacco turned out to be a very bad thing! Is it because of conscience that they are discontinuing it? Many farmers are also discontinuing animal slaughter products.
Read his essay , The Hidden Wound . About racism , history and the story white families tell themselves to make themselves feel better about using enslaved labor
Such a rich conversation .
Wendell Berry, prophet of America, giving voice to the needs and spirit of our country. He should be required reading in high schools and colleges.
I wish I could sit across the table from these two with a slice of pie and hours of their stories. Thank you for the video and for the focus on rural America.
A fine Kentucky writer and a true gentleman.
Thank you.
Thank you for recording and sharing this day. Warmest wishes from Alberta!
Thank you.
𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐦 😝
Here is a plan, fire all climate nut jobs and drill for oil.
Fantastic conversation - thank you. Envisioning how a similar system could exist in Illinois/Iowa.
This is beautiful.
Thank you for sharing this. 😊
This is so poignant. Brings my mother to mind, who was raised on a farm. In her oral history, she discussed hog killing.
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Love your passion and describe how important it is to have the right culture to farm and the fact you have a book store and program to support the culture of your philosophy is wonderful. I have family in Bardstown Ky and I am not sure if they know about the Berry Center. I will have to tell them about this. Wow. Thank y’all for sharing and caring for the Land of KY.
Profound~♡~ one of the saddest days of my life was saying goodbye to my Barnie and Porky* Didn't realize that all the joyful days with them would end the way they did- hard to know those things seeing the world and life through a child's eyes~ today one of my dearest friends is my butcher~♡~ su-ee*
Hey Ed, I can't even to tell you how much joy you've brought to my life. Rest easy.
The same here, huge farms destroying the land and the water, to export meat and dairy overseas, all greed and farmers moaning because they are being told to clean up their act. Floods everywhere killing livestock. live animals drowning at sea and all the concern is about the money.
Layed out in black and white and we havent made any progress....we have been working against nature instead of with it....
Lovely content the Berry Center is producing right now! I would love the ability to come down to the farm (eastern Kentuckian here!) once COVID-19 is over and take a course. It would be nice to be able to take a 2-hour class with some of your colleagues. I need a teamster course with Rick Thomas ASAP (ha!)
I was lucky to be honored by Wendell Berry. Wendell was at University of Kentucky when I was refusing induction, then going to trial and jail. He came to a UK gathering to say goodbye on my way to jail. Wendell read from a chapter in his book, Long Legged House. (My dad - murdered in a petty robbery, 12 days short of my coming home, read his thoughts to the audience as well.) A chapter in Wendell's book is dedicated in honor of Don Pratt. I thank Wendell and wish he had been able to visit with my dad to learn how dad lived his childhood, and young teaching, experiences and hillside farming knowledge.
Thank you.
If nothing else this taping demonstrates a quality much lacking in our society these days - consistency. His urgent topic was consistently delivered with a gentle tone and still is. As someone discovering him later in life finding his message being delivered the same when I was 4 years old as it is now that I am nearly 50 is an inspiration.
I've been re-reading several of Berry's works and am now on Fidelity, the five short stories that simply blow me away. He is the finest.
I'm excited to join the Port William Membership. Theo Ferguson, Healing Living Systems, Inc., Berkeley, CA
Would love to go to the U.S. for this!
Maybe the greatest speech I have ever heard, it educates, amuses, and emotionally connects. I am utterly impressed with every single thing he says.
This is an honest and explanatory description of the state of ALL modern grand industries......where small sustainable families and communities that have been forced and shifted to going "big" or otherwise if not, move away to the cities, to ironically live close to a produce market. . I can't describe it as well as Wendell does. I'm a city-boy, born in the city (53yo). But I find it much more satisfying to grow my city garden, than to grow things on my computer. There is, for me, a unique satisfaction when my actions "agree" with nature. Maybe that's the reason I enjoy gardening so much. Maybe that's the reason I go to remote camping trips "for fun and respite". Maybe that's the reason I and other city-folk often plan our retirement and death among the trees and homes of hoots of owls in the night.
The truth is the truth, conservation will never change no matter the generation. God bless you Sir Wendell Berry, I'm so much motivated by your work.
thank you for uploading and sharing this. I recently got turned onto wendell berry , and he immediately reminded me of walt whitman, emerson, and thoreau in the same beautiful sense of the transcendentalists.