Nell Newman Quotes

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

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.

I find it so exciting to grow your own food.

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.

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

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

If people grow things themselves, their children understand, then schools in the area know that this community's generating something with its own energy, to consume.

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

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

I really like the whole urban farming idea, because I grow my own produce in L.A., and I think it's great to teach people here in Manhattan so they can do the same.

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

Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look toward alternatives.

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

Californians are people who insist on growing their own vegetables, but they won't dig up the pretty lawn, won't plant anything for fear of getting dirty, and they use fragrant bath salts from The Body Shop instead of smelly compost.

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

Urban farming is not only possible, it is crucial. But it can't be like the farming techniques of yore.

I have an organic garden and love being able to say, 'I'm going to see what I can pick to throw in my salad.'

I like to pick my own vegetables.

I love the idea of farm to table and farmer's markets. I enjoy a meal more if I know I'm eating something that's good quality and good for me.

I grow my own vegetables and herbs. I like being able to tell people that the lunch I'm serving started out as a seed in my yard.

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.

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.

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