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.
Why Christians Should Support Sustainable Agriculture
Everybody should support sustainable agriculture because it will help alleviate health problems, environmental pollution and help strengthen communities…but Christians have added incentive to do so, since it is a way of worship, Biblically relevant and connected to teachings of Jesus…
Farming and Faith: Interview With Ragan Sutterfield
We are creatures, limited and dependent, living in a world that God created out of the trinitarian community of love…It is our role as Christians to live as limited and dependent creatures so that the creation might flourish and all can enjoy the abundance that God has created…
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