Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating.

When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol.

How many of us lobby for green energy or protected lands, but don't engage with the local bounty to lay by for tomorrow's unseasonal reality? That we tend to not even think about this as a foundation for solutions in our food systems shows how quickly we want other people to solve these issues.

The wealth of any ecosystem is its perennials. The primal herbivore-predator-disturbance-rest dance is literally the breath and pulse of the earth. Grasses recycle oxygen far more efficiently than trees. The turnover is faster. Grass reaches out and turns solar energy into carbon. Tillage hyper-aerates the soil, burning out carbon. But because a plant creates bilateral symmetry at the soil horizon, it sloughs off root mass when the top gets chopped off.

You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit.

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

The industrial food system is so cruel and so horrific in its treatment of animals. It never asks the question: 'Should a pig be allowed to express its pig-ness?'