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“Our vegetables on the stand all look imperfect, they have holes in them and they look lopsided. This happens to heirlooms a lot; they cat face, they get beaten up, they get zippered and scarred. You can avoid a lot of this by growing them someplace where it never rains and where you can irrigate them all you want. You basically baby them so you can have them look a lot nicer but something’s lost there and I think it shows in the flavor. Before I farmed I might have thought I didn’t want that vegetable that has holes in it, but now I’m suspicious of the one that looks perfect.”
- Tim Stark (Eckerton Hill Farm)
“It seemed to me that here man lived in continuous harmony with the land, as much and as briefly a part of it as all its other occupants. He used the earth with gratitude, knowing that care was required for continued sustenance. He rotated crops, controlled the cutting of wood, bulwarked his fields against erosion. In this peaceful coexistence, man was the invited guest.”
“I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of health and that to speak of the health of an isolated individual is a contradiction in terms.”
“. . . wanting good government in their states, they first established order in their own families; wanting order in the home, they first disciplined themselves . . .”
- Confucius (551 - 479 B.C.)