The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers.

The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.

The average person is still under the aberrant delusion that food should be somebody else's responsibility until I'm ready to eat it.

I think it's one of the most important battles for consumers to fight: the right to know what's in their food, and how it was grown.

Realize that agendas drive data, not the other way round

Just because we can ship organic lettuce from the Salinas Valley, or organic cut flowers from Peru, doesn't mean we should do it, not if we're really serious about energy and seasonality and bioregionalism.

A farm regulated to production of raw commodities is not a farm at all. It is a temporary blip until the land is used up, the water polluted, the neighbors nauseated, and the air unbreathable. The farmhouse, the concrete, the machinery, and outbuildings become relics of a bygone vibrancy when another family farm moves to the city financial centers for relief.