Nobody trusts the industrial food system to give them good food.

'Organic' doesn't mean what people think it means.

I see myself today as Sitting Bull trying to bring a voice of Easternism, holism, community-based thinking to a very Western culture.

The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.

I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical.

I need people - theatrics and schmoozing and storytelling are part of my talent.

Too often, parents whose children express an interest in farming squelch it because they envision dirt, dust, poverty, and hermit living. But great stories come out of great farming.

The linear, single species idea of farming is an assault on ecological function. Something's going to break down in that system - anything from soil structure, in economics... but where to start is with true ecological function.

It's very common to implement mob grazing and double your production for a per-acre capitalisation investment... because it doesn't take any more corraling, no more electricity, rent, machinery or labour to double your production on an existing place.

There's a big difference between industrializing production of tractors and industrializing production of food. We like technology, but we really like technology that allows us to do better what nature does itself.

I didn't really see a way to make a living on the farm. I always loved writing. I was the guy who won the D.A.R. essay contest and things like that, and it was the era of Watergate, and I decided I would be the next Woodward and Bernstein, and then retire to the farm.

We would be a much healthier culture if the government had never told us how to eat.

Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen. Start building up your larder! We don't even use that term any more.

We're scared to death to try new things because we think we have to get it right the first time.

God doesn't just miraculously and physically intervene in the whole process, so if I just go and drop a bunch of chemicals and herbicides that leach into the groundwater, I can pray all day to keep my child healthy, but if the herbicides gone into the groundwater come up my well, my child's going to drink that water.

We can't begin to feed ourselves with a local-centric system if we lock up land in royal manor models.

New Zealand has incredible global recognition for grass-fed livestock.

Instead of buying into the global agenda, which is using food as just industrial stuff, we would say we view food as biological, a living thing, that belongs in smaller communities.

I want people to think through issues. I'm just tired of blind alignment.

Industrial agriculture, because it depends on standardization, has bombarded us with the message that all pork is pork, all chicken is chicken, eggs eggs, even though we all know that can't really be true.

Nature moves towards balance.

Think of all the mesquite in Texas, the pinyon pines, the acorns in Appalachia, every place has the possibility of mass production. It's an infrastructural system so nestled in ecology, it's a more beautiful ecology.

What we're looking at is God's design, nature's template, and using that as a pattern to cut around and lay it down on a domestic model to duplicate that pattern that we see in nature.

We believe that the farm should be building 'forgiveness' into the ecosystem. What does that mean? That a more forgiving ecosystem is one that can better handle drought, flood, disease, pestilence.

I am libertarian, and Americans generally are, more than, say, Canadians and Australians.

Choose to patronise your local farmers; as eaters, you need to demand a different type of food. Appreciate the pigginess of the pig.

Our biggest fear is that 'Food, Inc.' will move heavy-handed food-safety regulations forward.

I don't have money. Monsanto has money.

I would suggest that if you get in your kitchen and cook for yourself, you can eat like kings for a very low cost.

I'm incredibly optimistic about what individuals can do. We have technology that our grandparents would have given their eye teeth for.