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 era and the generations coming behind us see that should you do it in a wise manner, it’s not as a lot laborious work because it was — and it’s really enjoyable.

Taking a look at when my dad and his siblings have been rising up…once they [worked the farm], it was form of like chores…they needed to do it, and all people 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 a whole lot of the cash is pumped into — with this, I suppose you could possibly say, newfound development or motion [to return to landstewardship], the cash is there, the assistance is there. So, should you take a look at it from a unique perspective, resembling, “okay, all people needs 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 could possibly flip [farming] right into a enterprise and model it on the identical time. It’s form of extra thrilling than considering of it as only a chore.

I’m hoping that in the future our youngsters get just a little 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 form of needed to work issues. My grandfather received 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 accomplished [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 all the time 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!