Julia Child Quotes

There's nothing better than home-grown, chemical-free fruits and vegetables.

The final principle of natural farming is NO PESTICIDES. Nature is in perfect balance when left alone.

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'm sure a majority of farmers do their best to follow safe practices, to read carefully chemical labels, to follow the law, and to try and ensure that they are making both safe and profitable decisions for their business.

By having a direct stake and involvement with the process of plants growing, of having your hands in the soil and tending it carefully and with love, your world and everyone's else's world too, becomes a better place.

Organic farming and other earlier methods can be effective, provided they can help us improve soil health and plant health. Plant pesticides like neem and tobacco need to be promoted.

Since I turned the fields back to their natural state, I can't say I've had any really difficult problems with insects or disease.

The only sensible approach to disease and insect control, I think, is to grow sturdy crops in a healthy environment.

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

Natural farming is just farming, nothing more. You don't have to be a spiritually oriented person to practice my methods.

Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?

I grew up on an organic farm in England. And I was a vegetarian from an early age - not just for health, not for the environment - just because I didn't believe in killing animals to eat them.

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 grew up in an agricultural family, and I never distanced myself from where the food comes from. I think it's quite natural.

We have to devise ways to lower the cost of production and reduce the risks involved in agriculture such as pests, pathogens, and weeds.

I want to pursue farming, and what better place to do it than at a hill station, which has a cool climate almost through the year.

The thing about organic farming is that the produce will not look the same. Your tomato will not resemble the rich red one from the textbook, and that's the beauty of it.

I'm a Rasta man, and I can't have a piece of land that isn't something I want to eat from.

Buy local fruits and veggies at the grocery store. You will support local businesses and cut down on all the fuel that is used to truck produce around from state to state.

In the winter, I always buy frozen organic berries instead of fresh. They are frozen as soon as they're harvested, so they actually have a higher vitamin content than fresh this time of year.

Training of farmers in integrated pest management is exceedingly important to protect them during the use of pesticides.

The downside to the Whole Foods experience is that its success is driven by one of our era's more grotesque phenomena: the upwardly-mobile urban dweller, the one who wants to indulge class-conscious epicurean yearnings and save the world, too.

I try to stick to real food, meaning anything that has been grown naturally or organically and that is not majorly processed: meats and proteins, a lot of green vegetables, less sugary fruits, solid starches and nuts.

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