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The Unsettling of America with Mary Berry

Title: The Unsettling of America

Subtitle: Why Farming Is About More Than Food

Guest: Mary Berry

Fifty years after Wendell Berry published The Unsettling of America, many of the questions he raised have only become more urgent.

Why are family farms disappearing? Why have rural communities continued to decline? What happens when agriculture becomes purely industrial, driven by efficiency, scale and profit rather than stewardship, local knowledge and human relationships? And can technology improve farming without severing our connection to the land that ultimately sustains us?

In this episode…

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