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 for those who do it in a sensible means, it’s not as a lot arduous 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 everyone needed to get away from it as a result of it was arduous work.

However 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 suppose you may 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 special perspective, resembling, “Okay, everyone 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 may 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 someday our youngsters get slightly 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 at all times did one thing, however he didn’t do as a lot, and my grandmother at all times 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 at all times 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!