Daily Bread with Wendell Berry

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Farmer, ecologist and writer Berry provides some rich and fertile ground for recreating life and culture. He speaks of enduring values, the wholeness of life and the interdependence of all creatures, especially humankind. Berry’s self-discipline, ethical sense and human compassion come through as he leads us from the microcosm of his Kentucky hill farm to the macrocosm of a sane and reasoned planetary vision based on personal integrity, faithfulness and love. (hosted by Michael Toms)

Bio

Wendell Berry is a conservationist, farmer, essayist, novelist, professor of English, and poet. He was born August 5, 1934 in Kentucky where he now lives on a farm. The New York Times has called Berry the "prophet of rural America." He's a veteran sage of sustainable agriculture, a progressive defender of virtue and tradition.

His books include:

• New Collected Poems (Counterpoint Press 2013)
• The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture (Sierra Club Books 1996)
• Standing by Words: Essays (North Point Press 1983)
• The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural (North Point Press 1981)
• The Collected Poems of Wendell Berry, 1957-1982 (North Point Press 1985)
• Hannah Coulter (North Point Press 1985)
• What Are People For?: Essays (Counterpoint Press 1990, 2010)
• The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry (Shoemaker & Hoard 2003)
• The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays (Shoemaker & Hoard 2006)
• Fidelity: Five Stories (Pantheon 1992)

Host: Michael Toms       Interview Date: 3/19/1985        Program Number: 1929