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By Thomas Turner on 12/01/2010
“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…
Posted in Features, Food & Agriculture | Tagged agri-business, agriculture, American history, books, community-reliance, corporatism, cultural critique, culture, economy, farming, food, industrial revolution, Mad Farmer, resilient economy, resilient living, self-reliance, Sustainable Agriculture, the agrarian mind, Wendell Berry |
By Thomas Turner on 11/22/2010
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…
Posted in Features, Food & Agriculture | Tagged agriculture, books, cultural critique, culture, economy, Mad Farmer, poetry, resilient economy, resilient living, Sustainable Agriculture, the agrarian mind, Wendell Berry |
By Jason Fowler on 08/02/2010
Despite what the title may infer, it is not just for farmers- it is for all of us who long for the coming shalom of GOD’s New Earth. He begins by inviting city dwellers to get their hands in God’s dirt…
Posted in Book Reviews, Features, Food & Agriculture, Voice of One Calling | Tagged agriculture, book, book review, Christian agrarian, christian faith, church gardens, Creation Care, environment, environment and faith, faith-based community garden movement, farming, Farming As A Spiritual Discipline, ragan sutterfield, Sustainable Agriculture, the agrarian mind, Wendell Berry |
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