Emilio Estevez Quotes

I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.

I actually just bought a ranch, and I'm going grow as much of my own foods - I've got thirty chickens, and I'm going to try to live as sustainably as possible.

I'm a farmer now, and it's fantastic. My goal is to be totally self-sufficient and grow everything that I eat. There's something about earning your dinner that's cool.

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

Three acres and a cow.

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

An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to stores and purchasing what we need.

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 grandmother had a courtyard of animals, like goats and chickens. She made ricotta cheese, cooked with potatoes warm from the garden, grew everything from beans to wheat. It was simple, seasonal food, and we all ate what was produced 10 miles from where we lived. It was that way for centuries.

I find it so exciting to grow your own food.

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

I'm focusing on cultivating my land. I have vegetables and fruit trees; I want to get some chickens and solar and really get off the grid and focus on just, really, being a mother.

I dream of living off the land completely - in vain, because the monkeys eat everything.

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

There's something great about the idea of working the land and living communally. That's healthy. That's good.

I had a free-range childhood. We lived in town but with a cow, chooks, bees, and multiple veggie gardens so we could live self-sufficiently.

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

I've picked butter beans, okra, watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew. I've butchered pigs, chickens. We made our own sausage and pudding.

That's what I want to do when I finish fighting - build urban farms and learn how to become a farmer, because that's what I wanted to be when I was a little girl.

Unless people can become natural people, there can be neither natural farming nor natural food.

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

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

I have a lot of fruit trees and my own little vegetable garden and chickens. And every time I eat, I bless my food; I say I'm grateful for for it and let it nourish every part of my body.

I like to pick my own vegetables.

Eventually my goal is get a place in Ojai where I can have animals and a big garden. Just drink wine all day and hang in my garden.