On Monday night Wendell Berry delivered “It All Turns on Affection,” the 2012 Jefferson Lecture at the Kennedy Center. Each year the National Endowment for the Humanities offers this lectureship, “the highest honor the federal government bestows fo…
Tag Archives: agrarianism
Changing A Food Desert, One Metro Stop At A Time
One of Farm to Family’s Mobile Markets in Saint Louis
Despite its place amid some of the midwest’s most fertile soil, Saint Louis is plagued by large food deserts – both a testament to suburban migration begun in the 1960’s, but also to racially-…
To The New Year 2012
From the Foster-Fluharty Farm; Matthew Fluharty
from Sabbaths, 2005
VI.
I tremble with gratitude
for my children and grandchildren
who take pleasure in one another.
At our dinners together, the dead
enter and pass among us
in living love and in …
Finding Sustainability In "Generation Organic"
From the 2011 Young Farmers Conference; Maggie Starbard, NPR
Many thanks to the folks who have shared news of this report by Dan Charles broadcast on NPR’s All Things Considered yesterday: “Who Are The Farmers of ‘Generation Organic’:”
For deca…