Berry Household Farms is Nurturing Knowledge for Future Generations

Advocacy

M: Berry Household Farms goals to show that farming is each “cool” and important throughout generations. How does your loved ones’s legacy of sustaining generational farming and constructing wealth affect your mission to embody the importance and “coolness” of farming and ranching?

Cedric: Our goal was to sort of let our technology and the generations coming behind us see that in case you do it in a sensible means, it’s not as a lot exhausting work because it was — and it’s really enjoyable.

when my dad and his siblings had been rising up…once they [worked the farm], it was sort of like chores…they had to do it, and everyone needed to get away from it as a result of it was exhausting work.

However taking a look at Georgia — which, for one, is an agricultural state, and that’s [the industry] the place numerous the cash is pumped into — with this, I suppose you can say, newfound pattern or motion [to return to landstewardship], the cash is there, the assistance is there. So, in case you take a look at it from a distinct perspective, akin to, “Okay, everyone desires to be a enterprise proprietor or entrepreneur, and farming is not any totally different, I’m a enterprise proprietor filling a necessity and assembly a requirement,” you can flip [farming] right into a enterprise and model it on the identical time. It’s sort of extra thrilling than considering of it as only a chore.

I’m hoping that in the future our children get somewhat extra concerned. My grandfather (Curtis Berry) began along with his father, after which, in fact, with my dad (Aubrey Berry) and all of his siblings rising up, they sort of needed to work issues. My grandfather acquired to the place he didn’t [have to] do as a lot anymore. He all the time did one thing, however he didn’t do as a lot, and my grandmother all the time mentioned she needed to see one thing performed [with keeping the farm going]. Then my uncle (Lamar) acquired again into [daily farm work] round 2008, after which my dad joined in with him a few years later, and we all the time helped. We noticed the chance, like, “Hey, that is what our household does,” so [my cousin] Tony and I acquired collectively and jumped in, too!