The daughter of award-winning author and environmental activist Wendell Berry recently spoke at Berry College about his book "The Unsettling of America."
Mary Berry spoke March 24, about her father's ideals and writings which in 1977 sparked national conversations about the dire state of agriculture and economy in America. Mary Berry is the executive director of The Berry Center advocates for small farmers, land-conserving communities, and healthy regional economies.
Mary Berry and her brother were raised by their parents at Lanes Landing Farm in Kentucky. She graduated from the University of Kentucky and farmed for a living starting out in dairy farming, growing Burley tobacco, and later diversifying to organic vegetables, pastured poultry and grass-fed beef. She speaks all over the country as a proponent of agriculture of the middle, in defense of small farmers, and in the hope of restoring a culture and an economy that has been lost in rural America.
The lecture was part of the Life and Calling Series. For more information about religious life at Berry, please visit https://www.berry.edu/religious-life/.
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Written by Chaplain’s Office Student Worker Kate Dempsey
