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 means, it’s not as a lot laborious work because it was — and it’s really enjoyable.
when my dad and his siblings had been rising up…after they [worked the farm], it was type of like chores…they had to do it, and all people needed to get away from it as a result of it was laborious work.
However taking a look at 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 suppose you possibly can say, newfound development or motion [to return to landstewardship], the cash is there, the assistance is there. So, in the event you take a look at it from a special perspective, similar to, “Okay, all people desires to be a enterprise proprietor or entrepreneur, and farming isn’t any completely different, I’m a enterprise proprietor filling a necessity and assembly a requirement,” you possibly can flip [farming] right into a enterprise and model it on the identical time. It’s type of extra thrilling than pondering 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 along with his father, after which, in fact, with my dad (Aubrey Berry) and all of his siblings rising up, they type 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 mentioned 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 jumped in, too!
