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 era and the generations coming behind us see that for those who do it in a sensible method, it’s not as a lot exhausting work because it was — and it’s really enjoyable.
when my dad and his siblings have been rising up…after they [worked the farm], it was sort of like chores…they needed 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 a whole lot of the cash is pumped into — with this, I assume you would say, newfound pattern or motion [to return to landstewardship], the cash is there, the assistance is there. So, for those who take a look at it from a unique 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 would 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 at some point our children get a little bit extra concerned. My grandfather (Curtis Berry) began together 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 obtained 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 needed to see one thing finished [with keeping the farm going]. Then my uncle (Lamar) obtained 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 obtained collectively and we jumped in, too!
