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An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
Author
Farmer
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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Cooking
Eating
Fields
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Good
Love
Agrarian
Farming

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