Stella McCartney Quotes

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.

I like to pick my own vegetables.

I grew up in a very modest home. We grew a lot of our food in our backyard. We fished; my brothers hunted.

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

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

We grow our own vegetables.

I always believe in living in the country, because that's where what I eat is what I can put back in the dirt.

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

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.

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.

I grow vegetables - I'm a vegetarian; I've got strawberries, artichokes, leeks, broad beans.

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.

When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.

When once I got to America I fell in love with hippie culture, and I've always wanted to live in the country and grow organic vegetables.

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.

It has long been a childhood dream of mine to have a farm.

I grew up in Italy, and our country is a country of great agriculture and food produce. It wasn't like I was urban and only knew about high-heeled shoes and purses and never knew where my eggs came from.

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

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.

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.

I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.

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

I was born on a farm. My strength has nothing to do with political apparatus. I get my strength from nature, from flowers.