Cooking and shopping for food brings rhythm and meaning to our lives.

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.

When 85% of the kids in America don't have one meal with their family, just imagine what that means. Just imagine, life is like a run-on sentence, you never pause. You're always grabbing something. You're eating in front of the television. You're out grazing with your friends, and you're learning and digesting the values of the fast-food culture. And that's what I really believe is destroying this world. We've been indoctrinated from early childhood that more is better.

This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.

Let things taste of what they are.

It's about children cooking themselves, growing themselves. When kids grow it and cook it they eat it.

I want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free.