Wendell Berry, Kentucky farmer and voice for sustainable agriculture, dies at 92
Wendell Berry, the Kentucky writer, farmer and environmental advocate, died at 92 at his Port Royal home, leaving a legacy as a champion of small farms, sustainable agriculture and rural communities, celebrated for works from The Unsettling of America to the Port William novels. Tributes highlighted his prophetic ecological and social critique and his enduring influence on readers and fellow Kentuckians alike.
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About The Unsettling of America
The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture is a 1977 work of non-fiction by American essayist, poet, and farmer Wendell Berry. In the book, Berry offers a critique of modern industrial agriculture in the United States, arguing that it leads to the degradation of the land, the breakdown of rural communities, and a loss of cultural and spiritual connection to place. The book has been widely recognized as a seminal text in agrarian thought and environmental ethics.
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