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Berry, Wendell
Wendell Berry is a multi-award-winning poet, novelist, and essayist, farmer and an
uncompromising defender of Agrarian values. Over the past forty years, Mr. Berry has
introduced us to the 'Membership' of his fictional Port William community. Herein he
sketches an interdependency and independency that members of such a local Agrarian
community, however imperfect, enjoy with each other as they live close to the limits of
Creation, the soil and other living things.
Mr. Berry's essays are more openly polemical and argue pointedly for the same Agrarian values and life subtly and masterfully implied in his novels and short stories. Mr. Berry also serves on the Board of Advisors for 'The Agrarian Foundation and The Agrarian Steward' -- and has been a great encouragement to our Agrarian efforts.
Daly, Herman
As a former professor of economics at Louisiana State University, and now as a professor
of ecological economics at the University of Maryland, Dr. Daly has been a critic of
conventional economic for over 25 years.
Fallon, Sally
Sally Fallon has studied gourmet culinary cooking techniques in both Paris and the United
States, and has spent many years studying genuine versions of traditional cooking methods
used around the world. Her writings include a wide range of knowledge from areas
such as literature, anthropology, history and religions when comparing traditional ethnic
and modern diets. She is a member of the Price Pottenger Nutrition Foundation
Advisory Board.
Hanson, Victor Davis
A fifth generation vine and fruit grower... as well as a professor of Greek at California
State University in Fresno... Victor Davis Hanson offers a unique perspective on
Agrarianism. His books are full of references to the Classics, and at the same time
give a perspective that can only come from an experienced family farmer. This unique
combination gives an important historical background to Agrarianism... as well as its
future.
Jones, Doug & Doug Wilson
Doug Jones is senior editor of Credenda/Agenda and Doug Wilson is pastor of
Community Evangelical Fellowship in Moscow Idaho. Both of these men have been
instrumental in the revival of Classical Christian Education. They also share a very
Agrarian view of the way things ought to be... an Agrarian, Christian society... picking
up where Medieval Christendom left off and moving forward. A must read!
Kibler, James E.
James Kibler is professor of English at the University of Georgia in Athens. An expert on
the Southern literary tradition and William Gilmore Simms, Doctor Kibler has published
broadly. His latest book, Our Fathers Fields: A Southern Story beautifully chronicles the
history of Hardy Farm, his antebellum home place which he is in the gradual process of
restoring in up-state South Carolina. Kibler serves on the Board of Advisors for The
Agrarian Foundation and The Agrarian Steward.
Kunstler, James Howard
James Howard Kunstler is a novelist, reporter, editor, and observer of the American
landscape. In this latter capacity, he has written two books which critically
analyze what America has become... a nation of strip malls, urban wastelands, and a
uniformity where every place looks like no place in particular.
Logsdon, Gene
With well over a dozen books to his credit, Gene Logsdon has written about everything from
practical homesteading skills to the philosophy of farming. He currently farms on 32 Ohio
acres, where his small-scale family farming ideas have earned him the title, ‘The
Contrary Farmer’. David Rockett loved Mr. Logsdon book, At Nature's Pace. He
says, ‘It shows the lie that the USDA and most ag schools love to tell... that a
small diversified farm can't provide a viable life for today's farmer, much less
profitable. To the contrary -- such farms are increasingly showing they are BOTH!'
Mander, Jerry
Jerry Mander is a senior fellow at the nonprofit Public Media Center and is a program
director of the Foundation for Deep Ecology. He is also a co-founder and chair of
the International Forum on Globalization, a new international organization opposed to the
global economy. In addition to his opposition of globalization, he is well-known for
his outspoken criticism of many other things Modernists hold dear, including television.
Naylor, Thomas H.
Dr. Naylor is a Professor Emeritus of Economics of Duke University, where he taught for
thirty years. A zealous defender of the small, Professor Naylor is co-author of the
important book, Downsizing the USA. Heeding the call for localism and decentralisation,
Dr. Naylor, his wife and son moved to Vermont from Richmond, VA in 1996 where he now
publishes his newsletter, Vermont Green Mountains – A Voice. Dr. Naylor is also a
member of The Agrarian Foundation Board of Advisors.
Postman, Neil
An educator by training, Neil Postman has become one of America's most outspoken social
critics. His analysis on the effects of educational methods, media and machines upon
our culture is insightful. Reading Postman will make you think twice about accepting
new technology... just for technology's sake.
Roepke, Wilhelm
The thought of German economist Wilhelm Roepke is well-suited to Agrarians. His rejection
of both socialism and unrestrained capitalism led to his ideas regarding a humane economy,
centered around private property, free markets, and limited government, within the context
of social responsibility. Mr. Roepke, a devout German Lutheran, is also an excellent
example of perfecting the old medieval tradition of 'Subsidiary'. Neither the Family,
Church, nor State offers us the richness of life alone -- much less the Market or Economy.
Man and culture mustn't be reduced to Homo Economicus. Life is more than food and raiment
and should not be bled to so anemic a state. Roepke understood this far better than any
Modern economist.
Salatin, Joel
Joel Salatin is a farmer and agricultural entrepreneur who lives in the Shenandoah Valley
of Virginia. He is well-known in sustainable agriculture and alternative agriculture
circles for his innovative and no-nonsense approach to farming. If you want ideas on
how to make money on a small farm by direct marketing and adding value to your
agricultural products, Salatin is the one to start with.
Twelve Southerners
In 1930, twelve Southerners published a symposium entitled I’ll Take My Stand: The
South and the Agrarian Tradition. Originally starting as a small group of writers
known as the Fugitives, they began to attract other like-minded men. After they published I’ll
Take My Stand, they became known as the Southern Agrarians or the Vanderbilt
Agrarians. These farsighted men warned of the dangers of the industrialisation of
agriculture. Their unheeded predictions have unfortunately proven to be more accurate than
even they might have imagined. These were classically trained men, in their 20s and 30s,
who clearly saw as early as the 1920s the roots of Modernism -- and what it would
ultimately do to our world.
Weaver, Richard M.
One of the students of the Southern Agrarians, Richard Weaver has become one of the
outstanding thinkers of the 20th century. Guaranteed to challenge any Modernist (or
Postmodernist) presuppositions you may have.
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