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 form of let our technology and the generations coming behind us see that for those who do it in a wise method, it’s not as a lot laborious work because it was once — and it’s truly enjoyable.

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

However Georgia — which, for one, is an agricultural state, and that’s [the industry] the place quite a lot of the cash is pumped into — with this, I assume you would say, newfound development or motion [to return to landstewardship], the cash is there, the assistance is there. So, for those who have a look at it from a distinct perspective, reminiscent of, “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 form of extra thrilling than pondering of it as only a chore.

I’m hoping that sooner or later 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 form of needed to work issues. My grandfather received to the place he didn’t [have to] do as a lot anymore. He at all times did one thing, however he didn’t do as a lot, and my grandmother at all times stated she needed to see one thing finished [with keeping the farm going]. Then my uncle (Lamar) received again into [daily farm work] round 2008, after which my dad joined in with him a few years later, and we at all times helped. We noticed the chance, like, “hey, that is what our household does” so [my cousin] Tony and I received collectively and we jumped in, too!