Alice Waters Quotes

How my son discovered vegetables was from growing them in the garden.

Growing things and being able to live off the land has always appealed to me.

Working with the earth is peaceful for me.

That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible.

It's funny; as I get older I'm reverting to my roots - I want to plant stuff.

We've gotten so far away from our food source. It's been hijacked from us. But if you get soil, plant something in it and water it, you can feed yourself. It's that simple.

When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.

I think there is some real therapy in getting your hands in the dirt and working with food.

Literally, if someone says I am grounded, everyday I am at home, I actually have my hands in the ground and dirt under my fingernails. I don't have a staff to do it all for me. I still plant a seed and I'm amazed it grows.

To grow a tomato or a pepper and prepare a meal from your labor and care is primordially satisfying.

In Berkeley, we built the garden and a kitchen classroom. We've been working on it for 12 years. We've learned a lot from it. If kids grow it and cook it, they eat it.

My partner loves gardening and beekeeping and chickens and all that stuff.

It's so easy to grow in the ground! It's truly the easiest thing to grow. You can bring kale to you.

We have a well and a garden. I crawl around in the mud and grow great vegetables.

The British have such an odd relationship with food - and the land. I want the public and the Soil Association to see that growing things in a garden is no different to growing things in a field.

In some other life I must have been a pioneer woman because I love to have my hands in the dirt.

When I was growing up on our 53-acre dairy farm, we were obsessed with food; it was the center of our lives. We planted it, grew it, harvested it, peeled it, cooked it, served it, consumed it - endlessly, day after day, season after season.

If you grow the food you eat, it tastes better. Seasonal vegetables are grown at the right time, and you can make sure everything matures on the plant or on the tree. It's as fresh as you can get.

I find it so exciting to grow your own food.

Healthy, sustainable food production methods give us food that is nutritionally better and with fewer pesticides, antibiotics, and hormones.

It's really important to teach people how to get food, how to grow it, how to pick it, how to prepare it and what's safe to eat.

It's become more readily apparent that we need to be growing our own food and growing more things organically.

From my earliest memories, I loved the farm. My grandfather was a charter subscriber to Rodale's Organic Gardening and Farming Magazine and had a huge, well kept garden with an octagonal chicken house in the corner.

I'm not a Luddite, but I'm outside more than I'm on my computer. We have a micro-farm - it's a step up from a garden. We have a pretty extensive vineyard. We grow about 60 percent of our own food, make our own wine, have chickens for eggs.

I just planted the family vegetables yesterday. You name it, I grow it.