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The Mad Farmer: Wendell Berry’s Agrarian Poetic (Part 2)

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…

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Wendell Berry's Mad Farmer: prophetic voice to a disintegrating culture

The Mad Farmer: Wendell Berry’s Agrarian Poetic (Part 1)

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…

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Farming As A Spiritual Discipline by Ragan Sutterfield (a must read)

Farming As A Spiritual Discipline [Book Review]

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…

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