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Wendell Berry, the 81-year-old award-winning poet, fiction writer and essayist, has continued throughout his life to care for the Kentucky farm that generations of his family have tended. Seeking to pass on their farming legacy to a new generation, Berry and his family have formed an alliance with Saint Catharine College, a small Catholic liberal arts scohol\u00a0run by the Dominican Sisters of Peace. Correspondent Judy Valente talks with Mary Berry, Wendell Berry\u2019s daughter, and with nuns, students, and faculty members at the college about the lessons and values that spring from having a spiritual kinship with the land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Farming is often about homecoming, explains Mary Berry, executive director of the Berry Center. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t mean [farmers] have to go to the place they were born,\u201d she says. \u201cThe concept of homecoming is simply to take root some place and care about a place, not just for a short amount of time, but forever.\u201d More →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":28957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","topics-belief-and-practice","topics-culture-and-society","topics-ethics"],"yoast_head":"\nFebruary 5, 2016 ~ Wendell Berry Farming Center | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kentucky poet-farmer Wendell Berry is passing on his family\u2019s farming 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