Monty Don Quotes

I grow the vegetables my family eats. I grow enough, and we seldom buy from the market.

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

We grow our own vegetables.

We always had our own vegetables growing up and now I'm doing it with my kids at our house in the country.

I like to pick my own vegetables.

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

I feel very guilty about not having a vegetable garden, but it is quite time-consuming.

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

I probably grow half my food. It's a good way to keep perspective.

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.

My son, Arzhel, is two, and he eats vegetables twice a day. We have a vegetable garden on our farm in the Southwest, and he gets two baskets, one over each arm, and says, 'Garden, Papa!' and then he eats what he picks.

There is also a marked global trend towards sustainable agriculture, building on traditional methods which use fewer chemical inputs, carefully manage soil and water resources, and work hand-in-hand with nature.

Three acres and a cow.

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

We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

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

I'm attracted to people who work their little plot of land and cultivate it and cultivate it.

I find it so exciting to grow your own food.

How we grow food has enormous effects on the environment - climate change as well as pollution of air, water, and soil.

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

Anyone who knows me will attest that at any time during the day, you are most likely to find me picking tayberries, 'deadheading' peppermint, or succession-planting shallots. There is almost nothing, really, that I would rather do.

In some ways, I'm slightly like a single parent, so I need to be able to provide for my family.

Cursing the weather is not good farming

Philosophy of agriculture itself is changing, becoming systematized and mechanized…. Men of virtue and talents ... are bringing science to the aid of agriculture and introducing method and management to the dull monotony of a farmers life

A program to make municipal composting of food and yard waste mandatory and then distributing the compost free to area farmers would shrink America's garbage heap, cut the need for irrigation and fossil-fuel fertilizers in agriculture, and improve the nutritional quality of the American diet.