What Wendell Berry meant to Christian farmers going green

For farmers breaking away from conventional agriculture, the Kentucky farmer-poet was a powerful example of someone who combined faith with a commitment to the environment.

By: Sydney Giacalone, University of Virginia, The Conversation

Outlets: The Conversation

Published: September 17, 2026

Words: 1,428

Last Updated: 22 hours, 55 minutes ago

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By Sydney Giacalone, University of Virginia

In the late evening of Aug. 31, 2026, I missed a call from Jennifer, a seventh-generation cattle rancher in Georgia. She was one of more than 70 family farmers and ranchers across the rural U.S. South and Midwest whom I’d gotten to know through my research over the past five years. We still kept up from time to time, but a late-night call had me worried that something had …

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