10/11/2026
📚🍁 Come join us for the Autumn Leaf by Leaf Book Club on Friday, October 16th at the farm! 🍁📚
Currently Reading: The Unsettling of America by Wendell Berry
The works of Wendell Berry speak to the core of what we embrace here on our farm: local community, sustainability, and simplicity. Originally published in 1977, The Unsettling of America examines the modern agriculture system in the United States and it’s effects on local rural communities.
This book has been widely recognized as a seminal text in agrarian thought and environmental ethics. Berry believes that good farming is a deeply human and spiritual practice. It requires intimate knowledge of the land you care for. The 50th-anniversary release in 2027 highlights just how relevant these warnings remain in the modern world today.
Join us as we dive into this fascinating topic. If you haven’t read Wendell Berry yet, then you are in for a treat! He is a very poetic, wise, and thoughtful writer that challenges readers to think about their place in community and relationship with the land.
Berry was born in 1934 in Kentucky where he lived his entire life cultivating community on his farm. He recently passed away at the age of 92. He was an influential American novelist, poet, essayist, and farmer who throughout his career has published more than 50 books and countless essays and poems. We look forward to a lively discussion on one of our favorite authors!
“But the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only legitimate hope.” - Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America
