The Necessity of Agriculture by Wendell Berry

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  • November 16, 2009 at 5:27 pm #41092
    Mark Cowdrey
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    Just picked up the new issue of Harper’s from the mailbox. The lead essay in the “Readings” section is the speech given by WB when he accepted the annual Louis Bromfield Society Award on May 16 of this year. Apparently it is also reprinted in the Fall issue of Farming Magazine.

    Here is a link to the text: http://www.farmingmagazine.net/Articles/ForTheLoveOfFarming.pdf

    In my opinion he is articulate & right on, as usual.

    Mark

    November 17, 2009 at 5:42 pm #55414
    ngcmcn
    Participant

    Good Read Mark Thanks.

    neal
    maine

    November 17, 2009 at 9:26 pm #55415
    Joshua Kingsley
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    Good artical!! It is true though that other places are more concerned with agriculture than the US. What a sad state of the country.
    Joshua

    November 19, 2009 at 2:46 pm #55413
    Gabe Ayers
    Keymaster

    We will be sending the speech Wendell gave at SDAD out with our electronic newsletter to the members that joined our HHFF site.

    After that is sent out we will probably post it here too.

    Thanks for sharing, you got to love this to do it for sure.

    Sincerely,

    January 16, 2010 at 4:37 pm #55416
    bivol
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    “Farming is the important base for all else. With regard to gold, silver, and jade jewelery, you cannot eat them if you are hungry or wear them if you are cold. They cannot compare with grains, corn, silk, and linen.”

    Emperor Wen of Han dynasty, China

    i think it’s a good and clear idea about the essential and and less so things.

    answay, the like is here

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