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Wendell Berry

Quotables: Home Economics

Home Economicsby Wendell Berry Some time ago, in a conversation with Wes Jackson in which we were laboring to define the causes of the modern ruination of farmland, we finally got around to the money economy. I said that an economy based on energy would be more benign because it would be more comprehensive. Wes would not agree. “An energy economy still wouldn’t be comprehensive enough.” “Well, I said, “then what kind of economy would be comprehensive enough?” He hesitated Continue Reading…
October 4, 2011
Microhomestead Experiment: Pastured Vegetables

Iwas going to write another Charlotte Mason post, but due to actual interest in my clover project, I thought I’d change directions for today. This project is experimental and should not be taken as gardening advice. I have never heard of anyone doing what we are attempting to do, but we do think that it makes sense, and I’ll explain the logic in this post. If you are wanting gardening advice then maybe it would be worthwhile using someone like Continue Reading…
May 14, 2010
Wendell Berry and Compliments in Education

Last night, while popping some popcorn on the stove {hope my chiropractor isn’t reading this–she keeps telling me to ditch the popcorn–ahem}, I picked up my slightly neglected copy of What Are People For? and reread the essay I had completed a month ago, which is to say, Wallace Stegner and the Great Community. Wendell Berry, when he was a younger man, was given a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. If you are unfamiliar with Wallace Stegner {and I was, by Continue Reading…
April 30, 2010
Quotables: What Are People For?

What Are People For?: Essaysby Wendell Berry A powerful superstition of modern life is that people and conditions are improved inevitably by education. [snip] [S]uch a man as Nate Shaw stands outside the notice, much less the aim, of the education system. From the standpoint of our social mainstream, the idea of a well-educated small farmer…has long been a contradiction in terms, and so of course our school systems can hardly be said to tolerate any such possibility. The purpose Continue Reading…
March 4, 2010