Berry’s The Unsettling of America, published in 1977, is considered a conservationist’s manifesto for an alternative to the industrial, commoditized farming that was rapidly scaling up at the time. He famously debated former Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz (who told farmers to “get big or get out” and to plant crops “from fencerow to fencerow”) […]

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