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Published: Sept. 15, 2020, 8 a.m.

\u201cWe have not settled America. We have colonized America. Now, we\u2019ve got to figure out \u2026 how to actually live here. How are we going to move forward? Everybody needs to be an agrarian now.\u201d

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\u2014 Mary Berry

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We live in a culture that pushes us to keep moving. Obsessed with upward mobility, we keep searching for something more. But this \u2018problem of mobility\u2019 robs us of the opportunity to belong to a place. To develop deep cultural ties with the land and each other. And Mary Berry contends that this disconnection and lack of community is the source of many of our problems here in the US.

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Mary Berry is the Executive Director of The Berry Center, a nonprofit that advocates for farmers, land-conserving communities, and healthy regional economies. On this episode of Reversing Climate Change, Mary joins Ross to explain how her family\u2019s history as part of the Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative inspired her to build The Berry Center and describe how the Burley Tobacco program\u2019s principles are at work in her team\u2019s Our Home Place Meat initiative.

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Mary offers insight around the value of belonging to a place we love, discussing what it means to be part of a community and why we need to initiate small solutions locally\u2014rather than waiting for one big policy or program to save us. Listen in to understand Mary\u2019s argument against our current economy and learn how The Berry Center\u2019s work goes beyond agriculture to foster cultural change.

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Resources

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Nori

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The Berry Center

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The Berry Center on Facebook

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Call (502) 845-9200

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Agrarian Culture Center & Bookstore

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Our Home Place Meat

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Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association

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Wendell Berry Farming Program at Sterling College

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Wes Jackson

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Nick Offerman

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Becoming Native to This Place by Wes Jackson

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Gary Snyder

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Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry

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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam

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Wendell Berry\u2019s Port William Novels

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The World-Ending Fire by Wendell Berry

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Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television by Jerry Mander

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50-Year Farm Bill

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Organic Valley Dairy Cooperative

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