#Seed009: Fatherhood as Husbandry

Reflections on Father's Day

First Steps, after Millet, Vincent Van Gogh

“A man who is in the traditional sense a good farmer is husbandman and husband, the begetter and conserver of the earth’s bounty, but he is also midwife and motherer. He is a nurturer of life. His work is domestic; he is bound to the household.”

- Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America

In light of Father’s Day,…