Course full. Waitlist option. Agrarian Voices Series: Summer 2024 Registration 
What Has Happened Here: Agricultural History
The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

Join Dr. Leah Bayens in an extended study of Wendell Berry’s iconic book, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture. Retrace the story of this land’s unsettling and the resulting agricultural, ecological, and social calamities. Join with friends and neighbors, near and far, to consider the roots of current challenges and the threads of the past that help make it possible to farm in full health through land-settling cultures, parity-based economies, and kindly-use communities. Along the way, explore how The Berry Center translates this book’s lessons into its own guiding principles. 

This Series Study consists of:
  • Access to a Collection of Resources: Readings, prompts for reflection and place-based exercises, & additional materials for extended study
  • Agrarian Voices Lectures by Kentucky Writers, Farmers, & Leaders: These public lectures enrich the study of farming, rural life, agricultural economics, and agrarian thought and history. Lectures are recorded and shared at a later date for those who cannot attend.
  • Group Discussion Opportunities: Gather with fellow participants to reflect on readings, exercises, thoughts, and ideas. A Zoom link is available for those who cannot attend in-person discussions.
  • A Humanities Field Day (in-person only): Field experiences and discussion at The Berry Center Farm.
WHEN: 
Thursday, June 13, 2024  
3:00-5:30 pm Zoom / in-person hybrid opening meeting. Discuss chapters 1 - 2.
6:00-7:00 pm Leah Bayens: Agrarian Voices Lecture: What The Unsettling of America means to me

Thursday, June 20, 2024  Online for discussion with participants. Discuss chapters 3-4

Thursday, June 27, 2024  
6:00 - 7:00 pm Zoom / in-person hybrid opening meeting. Discuss chapters 5-6.

Thursday, July 11, 2024  Online discussion with participants. Discuss chapter 7

Thursday, July 18, 2024  
10:00 am - 2:00 pm AVS Humanities Field Day at TBC Farm. Discuss chapters 8 - 9. TBC Staff Study Participation.
             

WHERE: The Berry Center, 111 S. Main Street, New Castle, KY. The Agrarian Culture Center, 137 S. Main Street, New Castle, KY.  Some elements may be accessible online. The Humanities Field Day will be at The Berry Center Farm, 8462 Maddox Ridge Road, Turners Station, KY.

YOUR INSTRUCTOR: Leah Bayens PhD, Director, Farm & Forest Institute. Since 2012, she has led TBC’s farming  education program. Her courses combine  history, ecology, literature, and cooperative leadership through hands-on study in forests, pastures, and rural communities. She ascribes to agrarianism as “a way of thought based on land." Leah is a lifelong Kentuckian and lives in Port Royal.

COST: $150
Reduced-rate scholarships are available to farmers and to residents of Henry County
Invoice will be sent upon receipt of registration form. Registration will be complete once payment has been received. 

For questions and assistance, please contact Shannon Boyd, Program Coordinator: shannonboyd@berrycenter.org

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