Nobody walks well first, nobody writes well first and nobody cooks well first.

You know, in our culture today, our Western, reductionist, Roman, linear, fragmented... culture, we don't ask how to make a pig happy. We ask how to grow it faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper, and that's not a noble goal.

If it doesn't rot, it's not real food.

Earthworms will dance

The notion that processed food is cheap and integrity foods are prohibitively expensive is simply not true.

If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing poorly first.

A farmer friend of mine told me recently about a busload of middle school children who came to his farm for a tour. The first two boys off the bus asked, "Where is the salsa tree?" They thought they could go pick salsa, like apples and peaches. Oh my. What do they put on SAT tests to measure this? Does anybody care? How little can a person know about food and still make educated decisions about it? Is this knowledge going to change before they enter the voting booth? Now that's a scary thought.