Wendell Berry Quotes

We have to grow our food differently because industrial farming will soon end. That means growing more food locally on smaller farms with more human attention.

Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.

Despite all the hype about local or green food, the single biggest impediment to wider adoption is not research, programs, organizations, or networking. It is the demonizing and criminalizing of virtually all indigenous and heritage-based food practices.

Supermarkets don't really sustain a community, and they completely remove people from the food chain.

Instead of buying into the global agenda, which is using food as just industrial stuff, we would say we view food as biological, a living thing, that belongs in smaller communities.

To put it bluntly, we now need to reverse course. We need more highly skilled small farmers in more places all across America - not as a matter of nostalgia for the agrarian past but as a matter of national security. For nations that lose the ability to substantially feed themselves will find themselves as gravely compromised in their international dealings as nations that depend on foreign sources of oil presently do. But while there are alternatives to oil, there are no alternatives to food.

Look at our farmers' markets today, bursting with heritage breeds and heirloom varieties, foods that were once abundant when we were an agricultural nation, but that we have lost touch with. Bringing all these back helps us connect to our roots, our communities and helps us feed America the proper way.

Understanding where your food comes from, trying to bolster local farmers and local economies and having a better connection to the food around you and the people around you, only good can come of that. I love to be involved with things like that.

There is a growing market today for local, organic foods produced by small farmers. And farmers' markets have played a large role in making that happen.

I think the only real knowledge I had before I went to Iowa was what I learned from 'Food Inc'. But once I got there and developed these extensive relationships with the farmers, I realized that we're basically made of corn.

You've got a global food problem. You've got a food problem in the United States. You've got a food problem in Africa... in Asia. And so the truth is, the U.S. is going to have to produce more, on not very many more acres, honestly. And so we're going to have to do a better job.

My real emphasis is on the farmers who are taking care of the land, the farmers who are really thinking about our nourishment.

All the people of the earth could be fed from the land within a circle of a thousand mile radius [of Kansas City.]

The best way to feed the world in 50 years is to grow food where most of us live—in cities.

Strong communities are built around local, real food. Food we trust to nourish our bodies, the farmer and planet.

Permacultures - where you use the immediate environment to grow food - should be mandatory.

I've always had a strong interest in how food is produced and in knowing where it comes from.

In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.

Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No community where every member possesses the art can ever be the victim of oppression in any of its forms.

There are lots of bad things that can happen to a food economy that's both extensive and centralized. There's no substitute for petroleum. To have a growth economy based on a declining fuel supply is bound to be stressful.

I think that if people would be willing to grow some of their own food or eat locally grown organic foods on a regular basis we could significantly decrease the amount of harmful chemicals we pump into our soil every day.

The securest guarantee of the long-term good health of both farmland and city is, I believe, locally produced food.

We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for.

The time has come to recognize that food, how we produce it, process it, package it, sell it, cook it and eat it, is as important as any other issue.

The Second Green Revolution, as the world's population grows to over 9 billion by 2050, is the new revolution we have to have to lift food production by another 75 percent.