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We are the Mad Farmer (your face here)

The Mad Farmer: Wendell Berry’s Agrarian Poetic (Part 5)

By Thomas Turner on 07/29/2011

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…

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