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“We wanted to get some great people together to talk about what it’s going to take to resettle an under-populated rural America,” Mary Berry, the center’s executive director, told Erica Peterson of WFPL Radio in Louisville. The two-day event will focus partly on the work of Wes Jackson, the director of The Land Institute in Kansas. "Jackson says America has a deficit of people in rural areas who will grow food and resettle communities," Peterson writes. "He says colleges should offer students more skills that will let them return to their rural homes and improve the communities, rather than setting graduates on paths that take them, and their talents, out of rural America forever."
Berry Center board member Sarah Fritschner told Peterson: “It is a Wendell Berry function in a way that the simplicity of buying the right thing and eating the right thing can translate into something so much more complexly wonderful.” Peterson says Fritschner, a former food editor of The Courier-Journal, "thinks a lot of people connect with Wendell Berry’s message through the local food movement, and they see buying locally as a way to exercise his philosophy." (Read more)
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