Garlic Pickin’, Potluckin’ and Llamas: the Agrarian Tour through Kentucky and Tennessee We – Agrarian Road Trippers – have been visiting and trading stories with many a farmer across Kentucky and Tennessee. Learning the tales of the trade and dreaming…
Read more »Day 0 ~ Louisville KY [many more on HEART picasa] Authors Ellen Davis and Wendell Berry at the Berry’s home in Henry County, Kentucky. Dr. Davis provided HEART with bible studies and discussion about the agrarian roots of the Old…
Read more »We have eaten a lot of good food on this trip… all the mental stimulation needs to be accompanied by the oral; it is through our tastebuds that we most closely acheive this “heaven on earth” we are seeking. In…
Read more »Land, Life, and the Poetry of Creatures, is adorned with a photo of dirt-covered bare feet. Biblical scholar Ellen Davis is helping to shape a new approach to thinking about human domination of the Earth and its creatures. With her friend, the farmer poet Wendell Berry, they speak to our collective grief at destruction of the natural world and nourish a “chastened” yet “tenacious” hope.
Read more »From an agrarian point of view, the Exodus was a movement from the flat, easily tillable land of Egypt to “the narrow and precariously balanced ecological niche that is the hill country of ancient Judah and Samaria.” The people of Israel had to re-make their economic life to conform to a landscape that allowed “only the slightest margin for negligence, ignorance, or error.”
Read more »An Agrarian Road Trip to the U.S. Social Forum June 13–26, 2010 Experience the good food revolution on this road trip from the vibrant small farms of Kentucky to the bustling Eastern Market of Detroit. Visit church and community initiatives…
Read more »African Food Basket Founder Anan Lololi. Photo by R. Jeanette Martin This is a great story from Now Toronto with audio clips of youth participants at the bottom of the column. “For 300 years we were on plantations, so there…
Read more »Happy Thanksgiving! These short videos were created by University City High School students interning with the Urban Nutrition Initiative over the past several summers – each summer they created one or two of the public service announcements you will see…..
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