Change the food in the schools and we can influence how children think. Change the curriculum and teach them how to garden and how to cook and we can show that growing food and cooking and eating together give lasting richness, meaning, and beauty to our lives.

Go to the farmers market and buy food there. You'll get something that's delicious. It's discouraging that this seems like such an elitist thing. It's not. It's just that we have to pay the real cost of food. People have to understand that cheap food has been subsidized. We have to realize that it's important to pay farmers up front, because they are taking care of the land.

The dinner table is a rite of civilization and we need to participate in that to keep our families together, to keep our communities together.

I believe that every child in this world needs to have a relationship with the land...to know how to nourish themselves...and to know how to connect with the community around them.

Always explore your garden and go to the market before you decide what cook.

We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.

The things most worth wanting are not available everywhere all the time.