I see myself today as Sitting Bull trying to bring a voice of Easternism, holism, community-based thinking to a very Western culture.

Realize that agendas drive data, not the other way round

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

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.

One of the greatest assets of a farm is the sheer ecstasy of life.

If you have to put on a haz-mat suit to visit a farm, you may not want to eat what comes from it.

When government gets between my lips and my stomach; I call that invasion of privacy!