Agriculture
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In the American imagination, small town, rural living offers a slower lifestyle in close knit communities, and affordable living. This idealized perception misses the deeper reality of humanities place in creation. Wendell Berry succinctly captures this when he observes: “Old Chinese landscape paintings reveal, among towering mountains, the frail outline of a roof or a
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On April 14th, Bob Confer wrote an article for The Wellsville Sun titled “The Deadly Stress of Farming: New York farmers are committing suicide at alarming rates, help is available.” His piece has haunted me since reading it. I am a descendant of farmers in rural New York state. My mother’s father and her grandfather
Charles van Heck's Woodhull Journal 