Occupation: American Farmer Birth: February 24, 1957
The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folk….
You know, in our culture today, our Western, reductionist, Roman, linear, fragmented... culture, we don't ask how to make a pig happy. We ask how to ….
A farm includes the passion of the farmer's heart, the interest of the farm's customers, the biological activity in the soil, the pleasantness of the….
You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit..
We don't need a law against McDonald's or a law against slaughterhouse abuse - we ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do is emp….
One of the greatest assets of a farm is the sheer ecstasy of life..
Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen..
Don't you find it odd that people will put more work into choosing their mechanic or house contractor than they will into choosing the person who gro….
The average person is still under the aberrant delusion that food should be somebody else's responsibility until I'm ready to eat it..
This magical, marvelous food on our plate, this sustenance we absorb, has a story to tell. It has a journey. It leaves a footprint. It leaves a legac….
Amazingly, we’ve become a culture that considers Twinkies, Cocoa Puffs, and Mountain Dew safe, but raw milk and compost-grown tomatoes unsafe..
Don’t complain about being unable to afford high-quality local food when your grocery cart is full of beer, cigarettes, and People magazine..
If you have to put on a haz-mat suit to visit a farm, you may not want to eat what comes from it..
Our community of rebels, of humble truth seekers, wants to turn our culture around. We don't despise our country. We don't desire failure. We desire ….
A culture that just views a pig as a pile of protoplasmic inanimate structure, and can be manipulated by whatever creative design humans can foist up….
I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical..
Just because we can ship organic lettuce from the Salinas Valley, or organic cut flowers from Peru, doesn't mean we should do it, not if we're really….
The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is..
I think it's one of the most important battles for consumers to fight: the right to know what's in their food, and how it was grown..
If it doesn't rot, it's not real food..
Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating..