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Forewords, Introductions, Prefaces, and Afterwords by Wendell Berry

If you are aware of any other titles to which Mr. Berry has contributed front or back matter, please let me know (Twitter: @brtom).

"Foreword" 

At Nature's Pace: Farming and the American Dream by Gene Logsdon. Pantheon, 1994.

The Caudills of the Cumberlands: Anne's Story of Life with Harry by Terry Cummins. Louisville: Butler Books, 2013.

The Embattled Wilderness: The Natural and Human History of the Robinson Forest and the Fight for Its Future by Erik Reece and James J. Krupa. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2013.

Enduring Seeds: Native American Agriculture and Wild Plant Conservation by Gary Paul Nabhan. University of Arizona Press, 2002.

God and Work: Aspects of Art and Tradition by Brian Keeble. World Wisdom Books, 2009.

Great Possessions: An Amish Farmer's Journal by David Kline. Wooster Book Company, 2001.

James Archambeault's Historic Kentucky by James Archambeault. University Press of Kentucky, 2006.

Kentucky's Natural Heritage: An Illustrated Guide to Biodiversity edited by Greg Abernathy and others. University Press of Kentucky, 2010.

Letter to a Young Farmer: How to Live Richly without Wealth on the New Garden Farm by Gene Logsdon. Chelsea Green, 2017.

Living the Sabbath: Discovering the Rhythms of Rest and Delight by Norman Wirzba.  Brazos Press, 2006.

Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness by Erik Reece. Riverhead, 2006.

The Man Who Created Paradise by Gene Logsdon. Ohio University Press, 2001.

The Meat You Eat: How Corporate Farming Has Endangered America's Food Supply by Ken Midkiff. St. Martin's Griffin, 2005.

My Mercy Encompasses All: The Koran's Teachings on Compassion, Peace and Love by
Reza Shah-Kazemi. Counterpoint, 2007.

New Roots for Agriculture by Wes Jackson. University of Nebraska Press, 1980.

NO FOOL NO FUN by Gray Zeitz. Larkspur Press.

Of the Land and the Spirit: The Essential Lord Northbourne on Ecology and Religion. World Wisdom, 2008.

The Prince's Speech: On the Future of Food by HRH The Prince of Wales. Rodale Press, 2012.

Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible by Ellen F. Davis. Cambridge Universtiy Press, 2009

Taking Root: The Nature Writing of William and Adam Summer of Pomaria by James Everett Kibler, Jr.. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2017.

The Toilet Papers: Recycling Waste and Conserving Water by Sim Van der Ryn. Ecological Design Press, 1978.

The Vandana Shiva Reader by Vandana Shiva. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2014.

Wendell Berry and Higher Education: Cultivating Virtues of Place by Jack R. Baker and  Jeffrey Bilbro. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2017.

The Woodcuts of Harlan Hubbard. University Press of Kentucky, 1994.

"Introduction"

40/40: 40 Years of 40 Portraits by Guy Mendes. Institute 193, 2010.

Driftwood Valley: A Woman Naturalist in the Northern Wilderness by Theodora C. Stanwell-Fletcher. Oregon State University Press, 1999.

Letters from Larksong: An Amish Naturalist Explores His Organic Farm by David Kline. Wooster Book Co., 2010.

My Mercy Encompasses All: The Koran's Teachings on Compassion, Peace and Love by Reza Shah-Kazemi. Counterpoint, 2007.

Nature as Measure: The Selected Essays of Wes Jackson. Counterpoint, 2011.

Pedestrian Photographs by Larry Merrill. University of Rochester Press, 2008.

Ralph Eugene Meatyard by Arnold Gassan. Gnomon Press, 1970.

Soil And Health: A Study of Organic Agriculture by Albert Howard. University Press of Kentucky, 2007.

To a Young Writer by Wallace Stegner. Red Butte Press, 2009.

Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture by J. Russell Smith. Island Press, 1987.

"Preface"

A Holy Tradition of Working: Passages From the Writings of Eric Gill. Angelico Press, 2021.

Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work by Curt D. Meine. University of Wisconsin Press, 2010.

The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka. NYRB Classics, 2009.

Round of a Country Year: A Farmer's Day Book by David Kline. Counterpoint, 2017.

That Wondrous Pattern: Essays on Poetry and Poets by Kathleen Raine. Counterpoint, 2017.

Waste Land: Meditations on a Ravaged Landscape by David T. Hanson. Aperture, 1997.

"Afterword"

Hope Beneath Our Feet: Restoring Our Place in the Natural World edited by Martin Keogh. North Atlantic Books, 2010.

Missing Mountains edited by Kristin Johannsen and others. Wind Publications, 2005.

The Pattern of a Man & Other Stories by James Still. Gnomon Press, 2001.

We All Live Downstream: Writings About Mountaintop Removal edited by Jason Howard. Motes Books, 2009.

"A Letter"

Stone Walls: Personal Boundaries. Photographs by Mariana Cook with a letter from Wendell Berry. Bologna, Italy: Damiani, 2011.

"Essay"

For the Hog Killing, 1979. Photographs by Tanya Amyx Berry. Essay ("The Neighborly Art of Hog Killing") by Wendell Berry. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2019.

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  • Forewords, Introductions, Prefaces, and Afterwords by Wendell Berry
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  • Port William: Membership
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