The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.

Corporations cook very differently from how people do.

Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began to sip petroleum.

Half of all broccoli grown commercially in America today is a single variety- Marathon- notable for it's high yield. The overwhelming majority of the chickens raised for meat in America are the same hybrid, the Cornish cross; more than 99 percent of turkeys are the Broad-Breasted Whites.

Culture, when it comes to food, is of course a fancy word for your mom.

Avoid food products that make health claims. at meals and eat them only at tables. And no, a desk is not a table.

Don't eat any foods you've ever seen advertised on television.