David Agus Quotes

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

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.

We can move water easily with plastic pipes. We can move shade around with nursery cloth like a tinker toy for animals and plants. Yet we have developed this necessity to grow food with chemical fertiliser because we have forgotten the magic of manure.

Agricultural husbandry essentially maintains the balance of bound nitrogen.

If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over.

The winter period between September and March in this country, when land sits fallow and is subject to topsoil loss, we could be enriching the soil and growing all the biomass we need to replace imported gasoline.

Well, sometimes you need the fields to lie fallow in order to gain nutrients.

I have been growing vegetables since I was a boy. When I was about 17 I was the only one of five children living at home. My parents were ill and I took over the vegetable garden and I have had one ever since.

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

Let's get government support for farmers to make the transition to organic.

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

My husband says he wants to have the best hay field in Britain. I can't wait.

The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.

You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people.

Many cows are fed a high-protein diet, which creates a more liquid manure that is easier to spray on fields.

So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel.

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

Compost makes houseplants very happy.

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

I have a garden in my backyard that's completely organic, which I'm very proud of.

Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.

A good garden may have some weeds.

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.