Breda O'Brien
Wendell Berry stands before the solar panels on his farm in Henry County, Kentucky. Photo: Wikimedia Commons / Guy Mendes. There is something poetic about Wendell Berry’s death at the age of 92, the day before the launch of the 2026 Season of Creation at a Mass celebrated in Castel Gandolfo by Pope Leo XIV. Wendell Berry, the legendary Kentucky farmer, poet, writer, and conservationist, spent his life preaching the themes that the Season of…
