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Have you read Wendell Berry?
I surmise from the postings that this forum has many people at the same stage that I am. We just purchased a 77 acre farm in NE Alabama. 35 acres are tillable. I would like to farm this using organic methods that will repair the damaged humus (previous owner rented to corn growers). I have learned a lot from reading Wendell Berry. Is there anyone else you have found to be helpful? I especially need pointers on crop rotation, plants that protect each other from bugs and weeds, etc.
Thanks.
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Have you read Wendell Berry?
Wendell Berry is the author of thirty-two books of essays, poetry and novels. He has worked a farm in Henry County, Kentucky since 1965. He is a former professor of English at the University of Kentucky and a past fellow of both the Guggenheim Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. He has received numerous awards for his work, including an award from the National Institute and Academy of Arts and Letters in 1971, and most recently, the T.S. Eliot Award.
His books of essays include:
Home Economics
The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
The Gift of Good Land
Another Turn of the Crank
Recollected Essays: 1965-1980
Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community
Meeting the Expectations of the Land, edited with Wes Jackson and Bruce Colman
I discovered him in Andrew Kimbrell's "The Fatal Harvest Reader".
The University of Louisville has an excellent interview with him at the link below. I am especially intrigued about his ideas on small scale farming outside the "agribusiness" model that we grew up with.
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Have you read Wendell Berry?
Thanks for the help. Bless their hearts, the ag service guys seem stuck in the 70's. I have heard the "sludge talk", too. What is ironic is that if they would let go of their "agribusiness" model and embrace the small farmer as a resource rather than a nuisance, they would raise the value of what they provide in their jobs, which was their original mandate.
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