Our motto is we respect and honour the pigness of the pig and the chickenness of the chicken. That means not confining them in a house with hundreds of others.
Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.
We can produce more per acre on a fifth of the fuel as the industrial food system.
I always said if I could figure out a way to grow Kleenex and toilet paper on trees, we could pull the plug on society.
Unfortunately in the U.S., the courts have pretty much sided with the GMO lobby and suggesting that a farmer has no rights to be protected from GMO contamination.
We need to respect the fact that cows are herbivores, and that does not mean feeding them corn and chicken manure.
I inherited Mom's verbal skills, and participated in forensics and essay contests in elementary school - and won every essay contest I ever entered.
The mechanical food system externalizes a lot of costs like obesity or Type 2 diabetes.
We've got this cultural mentality that you've got to be an idiot to be a farmer.
Gluten intolerance and celiac disease are direct results of American agriculture policy and, specifically, the government's wading into the food arena.
The pig is not just pork chops and bacon and ham to us. The pig is a co-laborer in this great land-healing ministry.
Throughout high school, I peddled my eggs, had a vendor stand at the local curb market - precursor to today's farmers' markets - and competed in 4-H contests and interscholastic debate.
It really disturbs me that the environmental movement has been co-opted by creation-worshippers instead of being encouraged by the Creator-worshippers.
Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture. But chemical agriculture offered new tools for annihilation.
The truth is, everything is eating and being eaten.
We've created a tenfold core value protocol to make sure that we don't fall into an 'empire' attitude.
The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it's only in death that life can be regenerated.
There's a short chain between field and fork, and the shorter that chain is - the fresher, the more transparent that system is - the less chance there is of anything from bio-terrorism to pathogenicity to spoilage.
In general, we run the farm like a business instead of a welfare recipient, and we adhere to historically-validated patterns.
From zoning to labor to food safety to insurance, local food systems daily face a phalanx of regulatory hurdles designed and implemented to police industrial food models but which prejudicially wipe out the antidote: appropriate scaled local food systems.
