The Good Health of the Land with Brooks Lamb and George Barnett, in conversation with Mary Berry

1:00PM – 1:45PM

Presented by The Kentucky Book Festival and Kentucky Humanities, this program is part of the main festival on November 2.

Brooks Lamb

Love for the Land: Lessons from Farmers Who Persist in Place

Brooks Lamb, the land protection and access specialist at American Farmland Trust, is a conservationist, agrarian, teacher, and author. His latest book, Love for the Land draws on in-depth interviews and the writings of Wendell Berry to explore why some small and midsized farmers continue to care for their land and calls upon everyone to learn from these farmers and cultivate a better future for food and farming.

George Barnett

Foraging Kentucky

Author, forager, and environmental educator George Barnett owns and operates the Hungry Forager, an educational program based in the Bluegrass region and focused on teaching people about wild edibles, ethnobotany, ecology, and agroforestry.

Complete with high-definition color photographs, recipes, and short history lessons, Foraging Kentucky is an expansive beginners’ guide chock-full of crucial information for readers who want to safely and ethically forage the delectable foods naturally available in Kentucky’s great outdoors.