From the visionary farmer, essayist and poet, these are the life-changing writings from Wendell Berry who paints an intimate portrait of the beautiful Kentucky farmland he tends to. Offers readers a glimpse into the struggle to sustain local environments and communities.

'A farmer of sorts and an artist of sorts,' Wendell Berry is the author of more than fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim, Lannan, and Rockefeller foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts, and also the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement, and the National Humanities Medal. For more than forty years, he has lived and farmed in his native Henry Country, Kentucky, with his wife, Tanya, and their children and grandchildren.