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…
Self-Reliance vs. Self-Sufficiency
Today rather then judge ourselves by some illusory benchmark of rural American self ’sufficiency’ we might better make an effort to be more self-reliant…we can discipline ourselves to participate in the world economy in a more conscious way and to strive for a level of self reliance appropriate to our life circumstance…
The Means of Production
If we are to recover the agrarian virtues of self-reliance and free ourselves increasingly from the bad valuations inherent in the money economy we are going to have to not only grow our own but breed our own…
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