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

Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most commonly afflicts the gardener.

Why don't we pay more attention to who our farmers are? We would never be as careless choosing an auto mechanic or babysitter as we are about who grows our food.

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.

At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.

There are certain products that it's worth buying organic just because the alternatives have so much pesticide. There's a list of the dirty dozen that you can get off the Web. Strawberries, potatoes. A handful of crops that have very high pesticide residues if you don't buy organic. If you eat that a lot, that's a good place to invest.

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