Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating.

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.

Forgiveness prompted by love is the only way to repair the devastation that so often mars our relationships.

Within seconds thoughts become words that slip off our tongue and into the world. Pausing before we speak may seem cumbersome, but it allows us to decide: Is this helpful? Does this need to be said now? What is the best way to say this?

We may go to church once a week, but our Christian life is daily - step-by-step.

When the peace of God follows the purity of God's wisdom into our hearts and lives, it will affect those around us.

If you face a challenging task from God today, ask yourself, "How would Jesus handle this?" Then go and do the same.

If we ask God for a calm, thankful heart that sees all the blessings His grace imparts, He can teach us many lessons in illness that can never be learned in health.

In a world that contains tragedies, we must realize that they’re vastly outnumbered by blessings

If your world today seems confusing, be comforted by the words of the prophets of God who have told you what the future holds for you as a child of God.

We don't know what will happen tomorrow, but one thing is guaranteed-God's overarching care for His children. We can be sure enough of that. In a world where nothing is sure, He is sure.

If you own just one Bible, you are abundantly blessed. 1/3rd of the world does not have access to even one.

God loves you as though you are the only person in the world, and He loves everyone the way He loves you.

Loving the world destroys our relationship with God, it denies our faith in God, and it discounts our future with God.

A willing heart is the first step in finding God's will in our lives. We cannot expect God to force us or to plead with us about the calling in our lives.

Our impulses toward instant gratification aren't to be trusted. Hoarding our resources isn't a worthy goal. We're created with eternity in our hearts, and our lives have everlasting value.

Head knowledge without heart knowledge is worse than useless; but when head and heart join forces, it changes our lives forever.

Every child is created uniquely by God. God puts a certain formula in the heart of every child. And it is the parents' challenge to figure out the combination. We need to spend time studying, looking, listening, and observing.

The Holy Spirit can’t remind you of something you never read which is why it’s important to memorize scripture. When you have Bible verses inscribed in your mind, you’re carrying a concealed weapon to use against the enemy in battle. Find a passage today and begin laying up His words in your heart and in doing so you will be prepared for any trials that will come.

Only a relationship with Christ can satisfy our hearts. Without Him we have nothing. With Him we have all things to enjoy.

Believers talk about trusting in the Lord with their whole heart and refusing to lean on thier own understanding, but no one really knows what that means until circumstances cast them headfirst into a dark and painful place. If we give ourselves fully to God in those moments, we will obtain keepsakes of Him to treasure now and forever.