Wendell Berry

The writer, activist and farmer on his new book, The Art of Loading Brush, and the future of American land

- Sarah Begley

You talk about a new generation of “homecomers.” What does that mean? By homecomer, I mean somebody who’s gone away and come back to the farm or to the local community. To rural America. Somebody who followed the universal advice that they couldn’t amount to anything where they grew up and have gone away and have found reason to come back. I visited a cheese co-op in Vermont. The members were not getting rich, but you could say they were thriving or prospering in a modest way, which would be quite enough if everybody were doing that.