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Today is a conversation between a pastor and a farmer. What might working the land, protecting local economies, and nurturing Christian communities have in common?We'll be speaking with Mary Berry, executive director of the Berry Center, and daughter of poet, farmer, and essayist Wendell Berry. My fellow interviewer today is the Rev. Clint Wilson, rector of St. Francis in the Fields, Harrods Creek, KY, not far from the Berry Center. We talk about joy of hard work, and hard work that is good work. Growing up with Wendell Berry as a dad. Faith and farming. Decisions to live with or against a given landscape. What is home? How do you make a home and dedicate yourself to it? The thick fabric of a place, and how work might be interwoven with neighbors, family, and seasons.What does it mean to actually "Love your neighbor as yourself"? We'll also touch on special challenges the suburbs pose to meaningful life together.Mary Berry, Executive Director of The Berry Center, grew up at Lanes Landing Farm in Henry County, KY. She has farmed for a living in Henry County, and started The Berry Center in 2011 to continue the agricultural work of John Berry, Sr. and his sons, author Wendell Berry and former Kentucky state senator, the late John M. Berry, Jr. The Berry Center focuses on issues confronting small farming families in Kentucky and around the country.Hear Mary speak at the Living Church conferenceLearn more about the Berry Center or Home Place MeatGive to support this podcast

Join us for our Food for Thought Luncheon Speaker Series on Thursday, Jan. 23rd featuring Mary Berry. Mary is the Executive Director of the Berry Center. Her talk today is on rural farming and sustainability.

The La Vernia Wrestling Bears boys and girls competed fiercely this past weekend at the Regional wrestling tournament. Every competitor achieved wins and improved over their finish last year. An outstanding performance was put on by sophomore Matthew Odom who finished sixth and was the youngest person on the podium in his weight class. La Vernia history was made as senior Sophia Garza became the first of the program to qualify to compete at the State wrestling tournament at the Berry Center in Houston, Feb. 16 and 17.Article Link

From the Cy-Fair Home & Outdoor Living Show at the Berry Center! Your Home Improvement questions are answered by Tom Tynan in this Hour 2 podcast of HomeShow Radio from 3/25/23 heard Saturday's and Sunday's on SportsRadio The post HomeShow Radio with Tom Tynan Podcast from 3/25/23 Hour 2 appeared first on HomeShow Radio Show | Tom Tynan.

From the Cy-Fair Home & Outdoor Living Show at the Berry Center! Get your home improvement questions answered by Tom Tynan in this Home Show Radio Podcast from 3/25/23 Hour 1 on SportsRadio 610 The post HomeShow Radio with Tom Tynan Podcast from 3/25/23 Hour 1 appeared first on HomeShow Radio Show | Tom Tynan.

From the Cy-Fair Home & Outdoor Living Show at the Berry Center   A Podcast from 3/25/23 Hour 3, with HomeShow Radio getting your home improvement questions answered by Tom Tynan on SportsRadio 610 The post HomeShow Radio with Tom Tynan Podcast from 3/25/23 Hour 3 appeared first on HomeShow Radio Show | Tom Tynan.

Rickey Glen Thomas "RT" preaches the gospel of draft animal power and agrarian education, describing a pedagogy borne from the musings of Wendell Berry.Rick Thomas is a horseman, farmer, author and educator who heads the Sterling College Wendell Berry Farming Program, located in Henry County, Kentucky.Sterling College: https://www.sterlingcollege.edu/Wendell Berry Farming Program: https://www.sterlingcollege.edu/wendellberry/The Berry Center: https://berrycenter.org/Learn more about Thoreau College and the microcollege movement at: https://thoreaucollege.org/Driftless Folk School: https://www.driftlessfolkschool.org/

The official groundbreaking for this new facility -- to be located in midtown Tulsa, near 51st and Sheridan -- happened this morning.

  Wendell Berry has shared his unique wisdom for over 50 years in over 50 books. The new book,"The Need To Be Whole" was introduced by Wendell himself at the Kentucky Book Festival at the Joseph-Beth Book Sellers in Lexington, Kentucky. Farm To Table Talk host, Rodger Wasson was there to hear Wendell wisdom first hand. All of Wendell's books are worth a read but "The Unsettling of America" is especially appropriate in these unsettled times. It is wonderful to hear Wendell in person and is almost as good to once again listen to the conversation he had in 2014 with Bill Moyers. To commemorate a special weekend in Kentucky with Wendell we're bringing back this conversation of Wendell Berry and Bill Moyers.  It is a production of the Schumann Media Center and         Mannes production.  www.Berry Center.org

Sponsored by Tierra Farm; Music by Aaron DessnerThis is the second episode of our second season, and what an honor and pleasure it is to welcome Mary Berry, Director of The Berry Center in Kentucky, a nonprofit organization “dedicated to bringing focus, knowledge and cohesion to the work of changing our industrial agricultural system into a system and culture that uses nature as the standard, accepts no permanent damage to the ecosphere, and takes into consideration human health in local communities.” Mary and her brother, Den, were raised by their parents, Wendell and Tanya Berry, at Lanes Landing Farm in Henry County, Kentucky from the time she was six years old. She attended Henry County public schools and graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1981. She farmed for a living in Henry County starting out in dairy farming, growing Burley tobacco, and later diversifying to organic vegetables, pastured poultry and grass-fed beef. Mary speaks all over the country as a proponent of agriculture of the middle, in defense of small farmers, and in the hope of restoring a culture and an economy that has been lost in rural America. In this episode Mary shares her thoughts on the importance of place in our work and lives, the culture of agriculture and its vital role in supporting healthy local communities, the essential work of educating young farmers, and her father's legacy and influence on her life and work.If you'd like to learn more about Mary's work and The Berry Center, visit https://berrycenter.org. Donate to Hawthorne Valley.More About Mary BerryMary is married to Trimble County, Kentucky farmer, Steve Smith, who started the first Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farming endeavor in the state of Kentucky. If daughters Katie Johnson, Virginia Aguilar and Tanya Smith choose to stay in Henry County, they will be the ninth generation of their family to live and farm there.Mary currently serves on the Boards of Directors of United Citizens Bank in New Castle, Kentucky, the Schumacher Center for a New Economics in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and Sterling College in Vermont. She speaks all over the country as a proponent of agriculture of the middle, in defense of small farmers, and in the hope of restoring a culture and an economy that has been lost in rural America. Her writings have appeared in various publications and collections, including “Letters to a Young Farmer: On Food, Farming, and Our Future” (Princeton Agricultural Press, 2016) and the introduction for a new edition of essays, “Our Sustainable Table”, Robert Clark, ed. (Counterpoint, 2017).

This week's episode of the THINK HUMANITES podcast features a collaboration between The Berry Center, Sterling College, and Our Home Place Meat. Bill Goodman sits down to talk to Mary Berry, Leah Bayens, and Beth Douglas about local agriculture and farming and how they're all working together to support small farmers in Kentucky. THINK HUMANITIES is made possible by generous funding from Spalding University's Sena Jeter Naslund-Karen Mann Graduate School of Writing.

More Than a Mile's introductory podcast is about local food and the farmers and artisans that produce and provide to their local communities. Nick Carter is the host of the More Than A Mile podcast and is the co-founder and CEO of Market Wagon, an online farmers market.  Episode 1 Transcript Nick Carter (Market Wagon) (00:04): Welcome to More Than A Mile, a local food podcast from Market Wagon, focused on connecting you to local food through farmer stories from across America. I'm Nick Carter, your host, a farmer and the CEO and co-founder of Market Wagon. We are your online farmer's market with a mission to enable food producers to thrive in their local and regional markets. Food is so much more than just nutrients and calories. It's actually the fabric that holds us together. And I look forward to crafting a generational quilt of farmers' stories and experiences, the victories and challenges of individuals, families, and teams doing their part to help democratize food in America. Thanks for joining me for this episode of More Than A Mile, and thank you for buying local food. It's one critical step in making an investment in food for future generations. (00:54): Well, my name's Nick, welcome to the More Than A Mile podcast. I'm your host. And normally I will be joined here by some of the esteemed farmers and food artisans, the food producers that really make local food, what it is. But today, just for a brief moment, I want to lay the foundation and let you know why we decided to launch this podcast and I'm gonna share a little bit about my background, how local food is important to me and why I think also it's important to everybody. As a matter of fact, I think it's so important that I wrote a book about it, and I gotta be honest. There's nothing more self-aggrandizing than self-publishing a book. Well, perhaps, self-publishing your own podcast about the book that yoU.S.elf-published. So I'm well aware of that. And let me just say that the point of this podcast is not about me and what I really look forward to is bringing onto the show, those people that I admire, respect, and have been spending my career to try and build a marketplace and a world where their small farms, their small food, businesses can thrive.  (02:02): That's what this is all about. I want to let you know how I came to this mission in my career, why it's important to me. And I think it'll resonate with why you have tuned into a podcast about local food. So I wrote this book More Than A Mile, and it's a play on words, right? The question we were asking is what's important about local food and the answer is that it's more than just measuring it in miles. As I was in my late twenties and early thirties, trying to figure out how we could create a business that was viable on our own family farm. That seemed to be slipping away. I knew that the local food movement was our only chance we weren't going to get big. Let's talk about getting big or getting out a little later in the podcast today, including some historical soundbites that I'm going to reflect on. (02:54): And so I had to I had to make it into the local food movement. Well, the first question I wanted to ask is a little, what does that mean? How far away am I allowed to sell the stuff that we grow? And what I discovered is that there was very little by way of kind of an orthodoxy of local food that all of its adherence could faithfully commit to and celebrate. Or I guess excommunicate the heretics because people who love local food, its most loyal adherence may be drinking fair trade coffee sourced from Columbia. They'd certainly eat chocolate. And on the flip side of the coin, people that live in Arkansas probably aren't buying Tyson chicken just because it's quote unquote local to them. So there must be something else, something more elemental in this idea of local food that we were really grasping for, that we were looking for as food consumers in the U.S. and I wanted to try and unpack that. Historic Soundbite: Wendell Berry (July 1974) (03:52): "I also remember that at the same time in Washington, the word on farming was get big or get out a policy that is still in effect. The only difference here is in method. The force used by the communists was military, with us it has been economic, a free market in which the freest were the richest, the attitudes were equally cruel. And I believe that in the long run, the results will be equally damaging, not just to the concerns and values of the human spirit, but to the practical possibilities of survival. And so those who could not get big have got out, not just in my community, but in farm communities all over the country." Nick Carter (Market Wagon) (04:37): That was Wendell Berry. He's an incredibly influential author in the local food movement and in my life in particular. And I have to admit as I write a book and as I venture in this career in local food, I'm standing on the shoulders of giants. There's many who have gone before me, Michael Paul and Joel Salitan, Wendell Berry, and others. And I really want to zero in on Wendell Berry's work because what's interesting about his work over and against the others who have written about and pontificated on local food, and the state of our current food supply, Wendell was contemporary in the seventies and eighties, as these transformations were taking place, he was able to see then what would happen if America didn't turn away? And he was right. That is a level of prescience, of almost a prophetic power to be able to stand and warn about the future.  (05:27): And if only we had listened, if only we had listened to Wendell and where Wendell was standing in the moment in the seventies, when, when that audio clip you just heard was, was recorded, he was standing up against the most influential person, arguably in the history of American agriculture who has really shaped American agriculture the way it is today. And his name is Earl Butz. Earl Butz was the Nixon era director of USDA, the United States Department of Agriculture. And he fancies himself the hero of American food supply. But what many of us have understood is that he's anything but. Historical Soundbite: Marshall Martin (Feb 1993) (06:07): "And then 1980s came along and times are difficult and many family farms faced foreclosure and bankruptcy. And there's still some today who, who claim that they're suffering from overexpansion. So I guess my question for you is Dr. Butz, first of all, did you say that, that the farmers are to plant fence row to fence row? And in retrospect, was that good advice?" Historical Soundbite: Earl Butz (Feb. 1993) (06:26): "I probably said it. I said a lot of things when I was secretary and I expect, I did say it, but it was the market who dictated that farmers plant fence row to fence row. Prices were up, exports were good. And the market dictated expand your production. They not only planted fence row to fence row, they tore out the fence rows. I can't even find the fence rows out there now, I guess that's because of large tractors and large combines. But be that as it may, but Marshall, if you don't produce it, you can't sell it. And if you have this program, we've had for years of curtailing production and telling the rest of where we're going to cut back and we're going to raise prices and cut back. That's not the way you expand markets. What we've done in our program around here is we've got our, we've put our prices up here with our price supports and then we've curtailed our production and paid our farmers not to produce.  (07:11): We sent a signal to the rest of the world that, that we're not going to be a reliable supplier. We sent a signal to the rest of the world that we're going to cut back on production. We got high price and we sent a signal. You expand your production on your marginal acres and your fragile land. And then just undersell the U.S. by a few dollars a ton, which is precisely what they do. They made us the residual salesman in the world's marketplace. Undersell us $10 a ton until you empty your bins in your warehouses. And then the world can take what they need from the U.S. and that's the position we've gotten ourselves into so that now we've got to heavily subsidize our exports to dig out of the pit that we've dug ourselves into." Nick Carter (Market Wagon) (07:50): As a kid growing up on the farm, we spent our summers; spring, summer, and fall, producing food. We spent our winters clearing fence rows, pulling trees down, pulling out old fences and combining and joining fields together to make fields bigger and bigger and bigger so that we can produce more grain. Butz's vision for the U.S. was compelling. It was strong, and you got to hand it to the guy. He pulled it off. His vision was that the United States would become the world leader in grain exports. And in order to do that, he had to activate farms to produce as much grain as humanly possible--farm, quote, "fence row to fence row." That's what we were trying to do. The next quote was to "get big or get out" in order to be the most efficient grain producing nation. We had to be large, massively efficient grain farms all throughout the Midwest and central plain states. (08:44): We were going to export to the world, corn, soybeans, and wheat, in such supplies that nobody else would bother to grow it. We would dominate the market. Well, this was a great strategic play, especially in the Cold War era, when the Soviets controlled most of the world's oil supply, maybe we could control the grain supply. What happened though is that that market never really materialized. And while farms like mine, where we grew up originally raising livestock, feeding the grain that we raised to that livestock. And what we said was we walked most of our grain off the farm. We were a ecosystem unto ourselves. The manure went back to the fields and it produced more grain the following year. Just enough grain to feed our livestock, which were also raising alfalfa. And they were grazing. Instead, we became a specialized farm. We were contributing to the United States, food supply, corn and soy, but the world that Earl Butz saw as the customer for that, they didn't need it in the same quantity that we were able to produce. (09:49): So what do you do when you have heaping mountains of corn and soy piling up and grain elevators and in store houses and in the U.S. reserves of grain? Well, you release it into the market in new ways, making cheap livestock feed. There's a lot of plots, and many subplots, in the food movement in the U.S. but the overarching plot really has been our obsession and specialization for producing grain. Other things that matriculate out of that are, for example, our desire for pasture-raised or grass fed beef. Well, what's that a reaction against, well, in the seventies and eighties, it became more economical to simply confine your animals and feed them nothing but corn and soy, because well, all that corn and soy had nowhere to go. So it became very inexpensive to buy pure grain feed regimens. And we turned cattle, hogs, and eventually poultry into confined animals. Today, when you see a reaction against CAFOs (Confined Animal Feeding Operations), the real root cause of all of that was a massive overproduction of grain produced for Earl Butz's vision of feeding the world. But in the end, the world didn't need our grain that much." Historical Soundbite: Iowa PBS (Sep. 2013) (11:07): "In 1973, President Nixon's secretary of agriculture, Earl Butz, responded by calling upon American farmers to plant fence row to fence row. And he told them to get big or get out. Producers took his words to heart and the race to feed the world was on." Nick Carter (Market Wagon) (11:26): Earl Butz, fancied himself as the hero of American agriculture. And in many ways what he did was astounding. It was had a deep impact. That's for sure the echo effects of this bubble of grain supply are still here today. We spent most of the seventies, eighties, and nineties building confined animal feeding operations. But even at that, we couldn't consume all of the grain that these specialized Midwestern farmers were producing. Next, if you recall, ethanol became a big thing and even bio-diesel, what else can we do with this corn and soy? Well, maybe we can burn it in our cars? But as recently, as about a decade ago, we hit what's called the ethanol blend wall. We are blending more ethanol than we can use into our petrol fuels in the U.S. And so we had to come up with somewhere else to put it, and the next place ended up being dairy.  (12:15): About five years ago, we started to see reports that we had been over producing milk in the U.S. and dairy was being dumped. Milk is now being applied to fields as a nitrogen fertilizer and where we stand today, we've pushed this bubble all the way to the end. And we are sitting in the U.S. on billions of pounds of excess cheese, because we've pushed the grain to the dairy, to the milk, to the cheese, and we have more than we possibly need. So how does that lead us to the original question of local food? What is local food? Is it really just a matter of distance? Well, the distance from you to where the food came from, it doesn't solve any of these issues of overusing the land for grain, specializing farms, putting animals into confined feeding operations. What we really mean by local food. (13:10): If we boiled it down is relationship. We want somebody to be local near to us, not just by the miles that I can drive to the place of production, but I'm looking for somebody who I can relate to that's producing my food and that person, the local food producer, stands not just as a relationship to me as a consumer, but they stand in a gap because they mediate a relationship between me and the land. They have a close relationship with their land and a close relationship with the person consuming the food. They become a mediator. My stewardship of the land in the U.S. is effectuated through my relationship with a farmer who's a good steward of the land that they own and that they operate. So what about certifications? What about labels like organic or natural? Well, they're helpful if the farmer that we are trusting to have a relationship with the land--mediate that relationship between us and the land--is actually growing things organically. But the organic certification program in the late nineties became co-opted by the USDA. (14:19): None other than Earl Butz's legacy. They trademarked the name and created a list of certification requirements in order to be able to use the label. The label today stands as sort of a proxy for, can I trust the person producing this food? And it's somewhat helpful, but what's more helpful is if I know the person and I understand how they are stewarding the land. I may not necessarily need to see that little round label on their package because the reality today is that little round label can get rather expensive and nearly impossible for small family farms to qualify for. And on the flip side, there are today over 40 synthetic chemicals that are approved by the USDA and still be allowed to be certified organic. The whole program when it became government run lost a lot of its appeal. So how do I know that these stewards of the land that I'm building a relationship with are doing it right? (15:19): Do I look for insignia, emblems, certifications? That's sort of what the USDA organic program promised. The reality, however, is that most of the people that are small family farms, they are responsible for the land, not just because they have to, to pass a certification, to make the person with the badge, check a box on a report, but because they have to, so that, that land continues to produce food for them, for generations to come. They have an obligation to the land out of their relationship to the land. Certified organic is helpful if the farmers are actually certified organic. If they're using organic practices. And what we've found is that many of the farmers and food producers who we work with have been organic before organic was cool. And they're organic still today, even if they can't afford or pass the regulatory hurdles that it takes to be able to legally use the little green emblem on their packaging that says certified organic. It may sound like what I'm asking people to do. (16:19): It seems daunting, build a relationship with every food producer that's going to feed your family. Yeah, that sounds difficult, but that's actually what we're doing with Market Wagon. And we learned the lessons the hard way. Before Market Wagon, I had started a company that was focused on getting local food into grocers, onto store shelves, where people could buy it and right alongside the rest of the industrial food that they were already shopping for. And we struggled for a lot of reasons, but one of the core problems there was grocery obfuscates, the relationship between the producer and the end consumer. The only way to directly connect you with the people who feed you is e-commerce. We're not trying to go back to Mayberry because, you know, a hundred years ago, everybody was directly connected to the people that fed them. Most of the time it was themselves and at the town square and in the small communities where they live. (17:13): And today the world is smaller because of the internet and because of technology. And we are doing this with Market Wagon, by creating more than just an online marketplace, where you can buy--more than buying, you can relate. We've created features that are almost like social media, following farmers, inviting friends, chatting, commenting, and having dialogues through the internet with food producers and the other people who consume the same food. We're creating a community around food and connecting you, using technology directly with the people who are producing the food so that you can trust them and they can mediate your relationship to the land that feeds us. That's also what this podcast is about. That's what I'm here to do is to bring the people onto this podcast, who you can know, learn a little bit more about them. Get to know the farmers, the food producers, the chefs, the artisans, who are mediating our relationship to the land. As we build a relationship-based trust-based food supply. I look forward to helping tell the story of farmers and food producers all across America, who are producing local food, measured more than just miles. Nick Carter (Closing) (18:37): Thanks for listening to this episode of More Than A Mile. Be sure to sign up for Market Wagon at marketwagon.com or after downloading the Market Wagon app for iOS or Android. Follow us @MarketWagon on Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, and Facebook for stories, recipes, special announcements, news, and just digital handshakes from our friendly farming community. If you enjoyed More Than A Mile, please rate the podcast and write a review on iTunes, Castbox, Pod Chaser, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts. Thank you for continuing to support local food.   Credited Historical Audio Clips in Episode “Agriculture for a Small Planet Symposium (Wendell Berry).” July 1, 1974. The Berry Center. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1tioiBrZRE&t=50s “Leaders in Agricultural Policy: A Conversation with Earl Butz.” February 1993. Purdue Ag Econ. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46G831BReDs “The 1970s See Good Times in Agriculture.” Sep. 6, 2013. Iowa PBS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Azxkm-3g1D4&t=2s

Double-header with Valley Spirit Farm and The Berry Center in Henry County, Kentucky #represent. Valley Spirit Farm is a two-family partnership farming together "over the fencerow" sharing resources and marketing across seperatly owned, but complimentary enterprises. The Berry Center, alongside a farming program and archive of Wendell Berry's work, is connecting farmers across Henry County with a program in the spirit of the Burley Tobbacco Growers, Our Home Place Meats, of which Valley Spirit is a part. A few of my favorite works by Wendell Berry... Think Little (essay) It All Turns on Affection (reading) Art of the Commonplace Unsettling of America Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front (poem)Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry (documentary) This podcast is brought to you by Growing for Market Magazine, Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, and Barn 2 Door. It's also brough to you by growers like you. If you got something from this podcast, or any of our podcasts, you can support our work at notillgrowers.com/support

Mary Berry is the Executive Director of The Berry Center and a leader in the movement for sustainable agriculture. A well-known advocate for the preservation of rural culture and agriculture, she is currently working to reconnect cities with landscapes around them. Founded in 2011, The Berry Center advocates for small farmers, land conservation, and healthy regional economies by focusing on land use, farm policy, farmer education, urban education about farming, and local food infrastructure. Its goal is to establish within the Commonwealth of Kentucky a national model of urban-rural connectedness.Berry is attempting to restore a culture that has been lost in rural America. She continues the advocacy of her grandfather, father, and uncle for land-conserving communities. When President Obama appointed her to Kentucky's Farm Service Agency State Board, she took on a public role in an effort to change policy.For 32 years she farmed for a living— first as a dairy farmer, then raising tobacco, and later raising organic vegetables as well as pastured poultry and beef. From 2002 until 2011 she catered events at her winery.She serves on the Board of United Citizens Bank in New Castle, Kentucky, and on the Board of the Schumacher Center for a New Economics in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. She writes for the periodical Edible Louisville and speaks widely as a proponent of small farmers.Bill McKibben is an environmentalist and author who frequently writes about global warming, alternative energy, and the risks associated with human genetic engineering. Awarded the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called the Alternative Nobel, in 2014, he is the founder of 350.org, the first planet-wide, grassroots climate-change movement, and is a fellow at the Post-Carbon Institute.As a student at Harvard he was editor and president of the Harvard Crimson newspaper. Immediately after graduation he joined The New Yorker magazine as a staff writer and wrote much of the “Talk of the Town” column from 1982 to 1987.McKibben's first book, The End of Nature, appeared in 1989 after being serialized in The New Yorker. It is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change and has been printed in more than 20 languages; he has gone on to write a dozen more books, among them Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future (2007), which addresses what the author sees as shortcomings of the growth economy and envisions as a transition to more local-scale enterprise. McKibben won the Lannan Prize for nonfiction writing in 2000.The Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he was the 2013 winner of the Gandhi Peace Prize and the Thomas Merton Prize. In 2009 Foreign Policy named him to its inaugural list of the world's 100 most important global thinkers, and Microsoft Network named him one of the dozen most influential men. The Boston Globe said he was “probably America's most important environmentalist.”
 McKibben writes frequently in a wide variety of publications including the New York Review of Books, National Geographic, and Rolling Stone. He lives with his wife, the writer Sue Halpern,  and his daughter in the mountains above Lake Champlain where he spends as much time as possible outdoors.In 2014, biologists honored him by naming a new species of woodland gnat— Megophthalmidia mckibbeni— in his honor.

Mary Berry is the Executive Director and Founder of the Berry Center and daughter of Wendell Berry. She joins us to discuss the mission of the Berry Center, history of agriculture in Kentucky and what we can learn from that history to support rural communities into the future. https://berrycenter.org/

“We have not settled America. We have colonized America. Now, we’ve got to figure out … how to actually live here. How are we going to move forward? Everybody needs to be an agrarian now.” — Mary Berry We live in a culture that pushes us to keep moving. Obsessed with upward mobility, we keep searching for something more. But this ‘problem of mobility’ robs us of the opportunity to belong to a place. To develop deep cultural ties with the land and each other. And Mary Berry contends that this disconnection and lack of community is the source of many of our problems here in the US. Mary Berry is the Executive Director of The Berry Center, a nonprofit that advocates for farmers, land-conserving communities, and healthy regional economies. On this episode of Reversing Climate Change, Mary joins Ross to explain how her family’s history as part of the Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative inspired her to build The Berry Center and describe how the Burley Tobacco program’s principles are at work in her team’s Our Home Place Meat initiative. Mary offers insight around the value of belonging to a place we love, discussing what it means to be part of a community and why we need to initiate small solutions locally—rather than waiting for one big policy or program to save us. Listen in to understand Mary’s argument against our current economy and learn how The Berry Center’s work goes beyond agriculture to foster cultural change. Resources Nori The Berry Center The Berry Center on Facebook Call (502) 845-9200 Agrarian Culture Center & Bookstore Our Home Place Meat Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association Wendell Berry Farming Program at Sterling College Wes Jackson Nick Offerman Becoming Native to This Place by Wes Jackson Gary Snyder Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam Wendell Berry’s Port William Novels The World-Ending Fire by Wendell Berry Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television by Jerry Mander 50-Year Farm Bill Organic Valley Dairy Cooperative --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/reversingclimatechange/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/reversingclimatechange/support

"We have come to a time of heartache for many people in our own country and I feel it keenly. I am deeply sorry. So I say now out of compassion and great hope, we do not have to have a calamity to learn to live more sanely. We do not have to live every year at the next year’s cost. If we set our intention and make a commitment our land and our people can heal. The healing of one cannot be separated from the healing of the other. What we need is already here." Mary Berry from the Berry Center in Kentucky. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/peter-smith05/message

First, Professor J. Scott Miller of Maysville Community College tells us about the three planets and the meteor showers to be seen in the night sky this month. Then we will finish a panel discussion from the Oct. 5, 2019 'Food First' conference put on by the Louisville 'Sowers of Justice'. This panel discussion is a blend of agricultural economics, sociology, history, policy, the environment, and social justice, and although it's a bit controversial we wanted you to hear it! This portion of the discussion was moderated by Hank Graddy of the Kentucky Sierra Club and features Wendell Berry (noted author and farm advocate), farmer Hoppy Henton, and Mary Berry (Executive Director of The Berry Center). Check out last week's episode (Oct 28 2019) to hear the first half of this panel discussion. Bench Talk is a weekly program that airs on WFMP Louisville FORward Radio 106.5 FM (forwardradio.org) every Monday at 7:30 pm (ET), Tuesday at 11:30 am, and Wednesday at 7:30 am. Visit our Facebook page for links to the articles discussed in this episode: https://www.facebook.com/pg/BenchTalkRadio/ Bench Talk: The Week in Science | November Sky; Sowers Farm Panel (continued) | Nov 4 2019 by Forward Radio is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

First, Professor J. Scott Miller of Maysville Community College tells us about the three planets and the meteor showers to be seen in the night sky this month. Then we will finish a panel discussion from the Oct. 5, 2019 'Food First' conference put on by the Louisville 'Sowers of Justice'. This panel discussion is a blend of agricultural economics, sociology, history, policy, the environment, and social justice, and although it's a bit controversial we wanted you to hear it! This portion of the discussion was moderated by Hank Graddy of the Kentucky Sierra Club and features Wendell Berry (noted author and farm advocate), farmer Hoppy Henton, and Mary Berry (Executive Director of The Berry Center). Check out last week's episode (Oct 28 2019) to hear the first half of this panel discussion. Bench Talk is a weekly program that airs on WFMP Louisville FORward Radio 106.5 FM (forwardradio.org) every Monday at 7:30 pm (ET), Tuesday at 11:30 am, and Wednesday at 7:30 am. Visit our Facebook page for links to the articles discussed in this episode: www.facebook.com/pg/BenchTalkRadio/posts/?ref=page_internal

John visits The Berry Center in Henry County, Kentucky.

Interview and Photos by Zach Kaiser Our guest today, Mary Berry, is continuing the work and stewardship that her father exclaimed in that book over forty years ago. Working at the Berry Center, located in her hometown of New Castle, in Henry County Kentucky, Mary is spending her time farming, advocating for farmers, building more resilient communities, and creating economies for the farming population living there. I sat down with her in the Spring of 2017, while traveling west through the rolling hills of Kentucky. Join us at the table, this is Mary Berry, of The Berry Center in New Castle, Kentucky.

Katie Ellis directs The Berry Center, which advocates for farmers, land-conserving communities, and healthy regional economies. She also heads a new Kentucky food enterprise, Home Place Meat. We talked with Katie about the first cooperative venture, now underway, to produce rose veal.

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Episode Thirty Two Show Notes CW = Chris Wolak EF = Emily Fine Join our Goodreads Group! Let us know what you want us to choose as the next read along. You can email, tweet or join the discussion on the Goodreads page. We have two upcoming read-along’s: December – The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers. Send in questions or comments by Dec 7th – we will discuss on December 12th episode. February – Maurice by E.M. Forster. United for the Troops – if you are interested in donating writing journals to this effort please email us at bookcougars@gmail.com and we will send you the mailing address. – Just Read – Death Comes: A Willa Cather and Edith Lewis Mystery – Sue Hallgrath (CW) Mrs. Fletcher – Tom Perrotta (EF) The Leader’s Bookshelf – James Stavridis, R Manning Ancell (CW) The Bone Garden – Tess Gerritsen (EF) Espionage and Covert Operations : A Global History (The Great Courses) – Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius (CW) – Currently Reading/Listening – Sweet – Yotem Ottolenghi and Helen Goh (EF) David Bowie Made Me Gay - Darryl L. Bullock (CW) Great American Bestsellers: The Books That Shaped America (Great Courses, #2527) – Peter Conn (CW) – Biblio Adventures – Chris went to The New York Society Library to see the New York World of Willa Cather exhibit running through August 31, 2018. Joint Jaunt to Playhouse on Park to see an adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank November 9 – Emily went to RJ Julia Booksellers to see David Lebovitz discuss his newest book L’Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making Paris My Home. David Lebovitz blog. Chris went to the new movie adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express (written by Agatha Christie) – Upcoming Jaunts – November 14 – Emily is headed to New Castle, KY and will visit The Berry Center. Bookstores in Montreal – email if you have recommendations! December 7, 2pm – Join Chris for a Willa Cather birthday celebration at Bookclub Bookstore& More in Windsor, CT – Upcoming Reads – What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky – Lesley Nneka Arimah (EF) Fodor’s Travel Montreal and Quebec City 2016 – Fodor’s Travel Publications Inc. (EF) The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers (EF) (CW) Hunter Killer: The War with China – The Battle for the Central Pacific (Dan Lenson Novels) – David Poyer (CW) – Also Mentioned – Yotem Ottolenghi article in NY Time: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/19/dining/yotam-ottolenghi-sweet-cookbook.html?_r=0

Episode Thirty One Show Notes CW = Chris Wolak EF = Emily Fine Join our Goodreads Group! Let us know what you want us to choose as the next read along. You can email, tweet or join the discussion on the Goodreads page. We have two upcoming read-along’s: December – The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers. Send in questions or comments by Dec 7th – we will discuss on December 12th episode. February – Maurice by E.M. Forster. – Just Read – Bluebird, Bluebird – Attica Locke (EF) Lost Voyage – Pauline Rowson (CW) Panel from The One Hundred Nights of Hero – Isabel Greenberg (CW) – Currently Reading/Listening – That Old Cape Magic – Richard Russo (EF) (audio) Powers of Darkness: The Lost Version of Dracula – Bram Stoker (CW) How To Read Water: Clues, Signs & Patterns from Puddles to the Sea – Tristan Gooley (CW) The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World – Peter Wohlleben (CW) The Leader’s Bookshelf – James Stavridis, R Manning Ancell – Biblio Adventures – Chris took friends to visit some of our local libraries: Blackstone Library in Branford, CT Sterling Memorial Library in New Haven, CT Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library in New Haven, CT Chris has written reviews of the two Blackstone Libraries on her blog. She has also written about the Beinecke on her blog as well. Chris ventured to Jaffrey, New Hampshire for a Willa Cather pilgrimage – she is buried there. Additionally, she browsed at Toadstool Bookshop at the Peterborough, NH location. Chris came across two of her favorite childhood books, two Willa Cather novels and a Gwendolyn Brooks novel: Saucy – Martha McKeen Welch (CW) Cannonball Simp – John Burningham (CW) A Lost Lady – Willa Cather (CW) My Mortal Enemy – Willa Cather (CW) Maud Martha – Gwendolyn Brooks (CW) October 16 – Denise Kiernan author of The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home October 19 – Anna Quindlen – West Hartford Reads at Town Hall October 21 – Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon – Upcoming Jaunts – Chris and Laura are heading to The New York Society Library to see the New York World of Willa Cather exhibit running October 24, 2017 – August 31, 2018. November 9 – Emily is headed to RJ Julia Booksellers to see David Lebovitz discuss his newest book L’Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making Paris My Home. November 14 – Emily is headed to New Castle, KY and will visit The Berry Center. – Upcoming Reads – Nightmare in Berlin – Hans Fallada (CW) Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman (EF) The Bees – Laline Paul (EF) (audio) I Know a Secret (Rizzoli & Isles #12) – Tess Gerritsen (CW) – Also Mentioned – Darktown – Thomas Mullen Literary Atlanta Podcast Ink and Paper Blog The Perfect Scoop: Ice Creams, Sorbets, Granitas and Sweet Accompaniments – David Lebovitz

Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast In this episode Nancy Thellman of Slow Money Northeast Kansas joins David Bilbrey to talk about the slow money movement which is creating human scale loans all over the world, outside the stream of modern financial markets. Since Woody Tasch originated this idea in the late '00s, they have moved $50,000,000 between individuals for their projects, with a loan failure rate less than traditional loans. Nancy shares her experiences connecting with farmers so they can grow their operations in Kansas, and the impact that is having on neighbors and agricultural practices. By creating new farming markets, they create new opportunities for current and beginning farmers, whether this is their first year or fifth generation in agriculture. If you are in the Lawrence, Kansas area on September 22, 2016, you can join Nancy and Slow Money Northeast Kansas and hear Woody Tasch, Mary Berry of Berry Center, and  Byran Welch of B the Change Media for night discussing "Bringing Money Back Down to Earth." After that, on September 23 - 25, 2016, is Prairie Festival, a complementary event to the work of Slow Money, at The Land Institute. If you are able to attend either or these, please let me know about your experiences. Email: The Permaculture Podcast Write: The Permaculture Podcast The Permaculture Podcast Donate to the Summer Fundraiser Resources Slow Money NE Kansas Slow Money Prairie Festival B the Change Media B-Lab Transition Music By Javier Suarez (Jahzzar) under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-ShareAlike)

In 1977, Wendell Berry published The Unsettling of America, a book that started a national and international conversation on the state of agriculture in our country. The Berry Center’s mission is to continue his work by bringing focus, knowledge, and cohesiveness to the work of changing our ruinous industrial agriculture system into a culture that uses nature as the standard, that accepts no permanent damage to the ecosphere, and that takes into consideration human health in local communities. Tune in to The Farm Report, as Erin Fairbanks is joined by Mary Berry who describes some of the work the center is focusing on and some of the problems we face as a nation made up of small communities in our quest to improve the agricultural landscape in this great country. This program was sponsored by S. Wallace Edwards and Sons. “I just read a speech my grandfathers gave to congress in the 1940s and with a few minor changes the same speech could be given today and be completely relevant.” [10:50] “If I think about the whole world – I don’t matter all that much. If I think about America, what can I really do? I took it down to the state, to the county, to the town and then to the farm that I live. At that point, then you find out that everything you do matters. So you start there, you start on the ground.” [17:45] “Too often the local food movement thinks only of fruits and vegetables. We’ve got to think about calories and grain is an essential piece of this.” [26:00] “We need a flourishing rural America to make our food secure.” [31:40] —May Berry on The Farm Report