You have to draw lines between being a journalist and an activist.

Nature abhors a garden.

We are at once the problem and the only possible solution to the problem.

I try to write in the first person - the first person not of a journalist but of a carnivore, an eater, a gardener, someone trying to figure out what to feed his family.

One of the problems is that the US government supports unhealthy food and does very little to support healthy food. I mean, we subsidize high fructose corn syrup. We subsidize hydrogenated corn oil. We do not subsidize organic food. We subsidize four crops that are the building blocks of fast food. And you also have to work on access. We have food deserts in our cities. We know that the distance you live from a supplier of fresh produce is one of the best predictors of your health.

My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.

Students are very engaged by the issues, and it's not surprising because food choices are one of the few powers a child has.