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 type of let our technology and the generations coming behind us see that in the event you do it in a sensible method, it’s not as a lot exhausting work because it was once — and it’s truly enjoyable.
when my dad and his siblings had been rising up…after they [worked the farm], it was type of like chores…they needed to do it, and everyone wished to get away from it as a result of it was exhausting work.
However Georgia — which, for one, is an agricultural state, and that’s [the industry] the place lots of the cash is pumped into — with this, I assume you could possibly say, newfound development or motion [to return to landstewardship], the cash is there, the assistance is there. So, in the event you have a look at it from a special perspective, similar to, “okay, everyone desires to be a enterprise proprietor or entrepreneur, and farming isn’t any totally different, I’m a enterprise proprietor filling a necessity and assembly a requirement”, you could possibly flip [farming] right into a enterprise and model it on the similar time. It’s type of extra thrilling than considering of it as only a chore.
I’m hoping that sooner or later our children get a bit extra concerned. My grandfather (Curtis Berry) began together with his father, after which, after all, with my dad (Aubrey Berry) and all of his siblings rising up, they type of needed to work issues. My grandfather bought 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 stated she wished to see one thing carried out [with keeping the farm going]. Then my uncle (Lamar) bought 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 bought collectively and we jumped in, too!
