The greatest lesson came with the realization that good food cannot be reduced to single ingredients. It requires a web of relationships to support it.

If you just think exclusively about what would be the best tasting or the most profitable, you're just not seeing the big picture.

The history of food has never had a better biographer. Required reading for anyone who eats.

The greenhouse is driven by three things: economy, flavor, ecology. Where ecology is what's being grown in this micro-ecology that can simultaneously thrive and better the soil/rotation, not just the flavor.

In the rush to industrialize farming, we've lost the understanding, implicit since the beginning of agriculture, that food is a process, a web of relationships, not an individual ingredient or commodity.

I said, 'Don, what's sustainable about feeding chicken to fish?'

The greatest lesson came with the realization that good food cannot be reduced to single ingredients. It requires a web of relationships to support it.