![]() A wide range of sustainable farming initiatives have been advocated and implemented in recent decades with varying success. In these ways, literary, artistic, social, and vocational endeavors in any age represent harvests in which anyone can participate. Berry suggests that mastery of agriculture, husbandry, weaving, and other skills are assumed in this context, and that Jesus demonstrated faith by prayerful service to others in feeding and healing them. In his foreword to Of the Land and the Spirit (2008), an anthology of Walter, Lord Northbourne’s writings on ecology and religion, Berry (like Lord Northbourne) points to perennialist matters of ultimate purpose as expressed by Jesus to, “eek first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness.,” in order to be provided food, drink, and clothing. French sociologist Émile Durkheim criticized modern society’s “malady of infinite aspiration” that trades cultural renewal for a fixation on replacement and perpetual commercial agitation to acquire things. ![]() Mentalities of limits and moderation foster individual identity as well as social cohesion to sustain both culture and soil. ![]()
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