Posts Tagged ‘Wendell Berry’

Listening to Wendell Berry

February 20th, 2009  By Mark Andrew Gravel

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On a cold, sunny Kentucky day at a solar-powered livestock gathering, otherwise known as the American Grassfed Association’s annual conference, I began to feel something like nostalgia. I say “something like” because it was an ironic reminiscence for a past agriculture I’ve never known yet at the same time feel connected to. Maybe this experience was not nostalgia, but instead an apparition of a sensibility returning to sow the seeds of posterity’s stake. Read More

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The Civilizations that Destroyed Their Soil are No Longer: Wendell Berry and Wes Jackson Weigh In

January 6th, 2009  By Paula Crossfield

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Yesterday, two of the sustainable food movements great leaders, Wes Jackson, plant geneticist and president of the Land Institute, and farmer/writer Wendell Berry opined on their growing concern for the havoc we are wreaking on our soil. Read More

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