Thomas Turner
The Mad Farmer: Wendell Berry’s Agrarian Poetic (Part 5)
The mad farmer says of the farmer who has given in to industrialization “If he raises a good crop at the cost of belittling himself and diminishing the ground, he has gained nothing…The Mad Farmer encourages us to stop thinking about money and goods and to return to thinking about our communities and land…
The Mad Farmer: Wendell Berry’s Agrarian Poetic (Part 4)
We are reminded that we are to cultivate an agricultural and communal vision that marries the wisdom from the past with a view towards the distant future. If the result is unorthodox and against the popular opinion of the day- than so be it- we are contrarian as a means to enact a restoration of what has been broken…
The Mad Farmer: Wendell Berry’s Agrarian Poetic (Part 3)
“A man who is in the traditional sense a good farmer is husbandman and husband, the begetter and conserver of the earth’s bounty, but he is also…a nurturer of life. His work is domestic: he is bound to the household…the household is the microcosm of all community.
The Mad Farmer: Wendell Berry’s Agrarian Poetic (Part 2)
“The Mad Farmer Revolution” poeticizes what a “revolution” of farming would be, which is Berry’s way to rewrite the wrongs of industrial agriculture. As the bonds of the local community unraveled with the industrialization of agriculture farm towns across America simply boarded up and became ghost towns…
The Mad Farmer: Wendell Berry’s Agrarian Poetic (Part 1)
The Mad Farmer serves as Wendell Berry’s poetic response to the changing cultural and agricultural times he conveys in his expose of modern agriculture, The Unsettling of America…
