fasenfest/berry

Harriet Fasenfest teaches people how to preserve food. From the reading she can also be seen as a environmentalist, especially when she refered to Wendel Barry. Fasenfest is writing this text in a form of document, a document of her past experience involving her revelation. She wants teh reader to understand that what she has accomplished did not come over night and that it took time and deep personal thought into making the decision she made.

Her purpose in this novel is to express her DIY believes and understanding, to in a way persuade us into returning to that traditional style of household activities. She uses this DIY culture to reclaim our skills of farming and to reclaim the art of production by farming and maintaining ones own food. as fasenfest states "it is an effurt to regain our.. labor, skills, trades, dignity, time, resources, home, community, culture, and reverence for the natural world".

Fasenfest is positioning the readers as modernized individuals who are now overtakened by the system of society, which is mass production. She don't expect much of the reader, but instead ask the reader to rethink their life and the natural cycle. The natural cycle in the text is interpreted as the cycle between humans and nature, farming and perserving like the old days. her informal text don't leave any room for questions, it is simply her opinion and her recommendation to the reader and her audience is assumed to be those who has no experience or understanding of this naatural cycle.

Wendell Berry is a well known writer and a farmer who won several awards for his work. Berry is comparing the industrail production of food to that of private farmers. He is trying to present the benfits and the good that comes out of self reliance. He gives several comparison all promoting the good of personal farming and presents the bad of industrial farming.

Some of the many benefits of self farming are the preservation of the land. With proper maintnence the top sil will never denourish, unlike the devastating effects caused by the industrial process. As an environmentalist, Berry opposes the industrail process, descibing its negative, its pollution and destruction of nature. He also discusses the benefits of free market within the private farms, unlike those of the industrials, their isn't any prise raise or uncontrolable pricing and alongside this, the quality are on different levels as well. The main goals for industrail production is profit, whether the quality or or the consequences, the corporals dont care much.

He also presents some facts that people may not understand or mis interpret. The concept of too much farmers. Berry emphasize that industrial corporations cannot be consider farmers, and that the real farmers are losing their farms to these big corporations. He urges us to look into the future and not our present and to change our life to a more natural one and to preserve will we can or else we'll end up in a "dump".

From what we read last time about craftivism, I do see a connection between farming and activism. One can use farming as a form of activsm depending on what he or she is trying to go against. Using farming to go against the industrial production is a great way to see farming as activism. It involves the idea of do it yourself and it is protesting against a particular opposition.