our lives to the world we live in, a theme pulled from his friend, novelist, poet, and farmer, wendell berryr decades, berry has written about the decline of rural communities, and how large agribusiness has separated us from where our food comes from, and the land that must be cultivated and cared for. >> i told wendell berry many years ago, if i could just get a job communicating his writing to people, i'd be happy with that career. and it's working out, because here comes some more. but he writes really wonderfully about, you know, something from his purview on his kentucky farm, seeing society go faster and faster. and he says, so what are you? you know, what did that buy you? it's so true what he says: that there's more-- there's actually more in an acre of land to fill your lifetime, if you just stop and actually look at it. >> reporter: as he writes, these were the ideas running through his mind as he hiked in the mountains of montana, just before the pandemic, with jeff tweedy and george saunders. a trio offerman describes as a "bromance," with a shared artistic vision. >> we're all

i mean, first and foremost, this agrarian writer from kentucky named wendell berry. other writers of his ilk. aldo leopold. john muir. thereau. emerson. all the writers that talk about having common sense when it comes to understanding a relationship with nature, specifically where our food comes from, you know, and the health of our ecosystem and how that applies to the health of our food systems and how we take care of our farmers, or not. >> jimmy: this book is split into three parts. the first part -- tell us what the first part is. >> the first part is hiking in glacier national park with my friends jeff tweedy and george saunders. >> jimmy: okay, great. great singer, great writer. >> classic bromance. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: yes. and there's a shepherd friend of yours, right? >> the second third is me spending a lot of time in the lake district of england with my friend james rebanks, a shepherd, and his family in this incredibly picturesque storybook setting where they raise sheep, now they're developing a herd of belted galloway cattle as well. >> jimmy: and y