Quotes About Farming

I love finding ways to bridge the gap between my heritage and my new farming community. An ingredient such as za'atar might be foreign, but throwing it into something familiar - a hot dish or an eggbake - makes it more approachable.

My dad has sayings for days. 'You bloom where you're planted' ties into farming, but it also sums up the ideals and morals that we have as a family by staying in Firebaugh.

Let me pose you a question. Can farm-raised salmon be organic when its feed has nothing to do with its natural diet, even if the feed itself is supposedly organic, and the fish themselves are packed tightly in pens, swimming in their own filth?

My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.

Farming is repetitive in a rhythmic, cyclical way that is by turns comforting and frustrating; some people find it invigorating, while others flee to the city and never look back.

A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.

Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.

For the first time in 150 years, the USDA reported there were more farms in America, not fewer. That has to make you happy.

The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.

Time spent in the cultivation of the fields passes very pleasantly.

Agriculture is at the same time the most tranquil, healthy, and independent occupation.

gastronomically, a wild salmon and a farmed salmon have as much in common as a side of wild boar has with pork chops.

Romans often took family names from agriculture, Cato

The mere phrase 'artificial manure' told the whole story.

Today 2% of the US population work in farming and agriculture, and we feed the entire world.

But it's as my mother says: "If you want to learn how to grow cabbages, ask the gardener, not the goat.

I don't know how the poor farmers deal with such situations in real life. It's really sad.

For though Europe has no deserts and no Nile, Champollion and Ramesses both lived in small-scale wheat-based economies founded on the technologies of the Middle Eastern Bronze Age. Broadly speaking, the material elements of those two economies – stone-cutting and metal-smelting, animal husbandry and farming and the everyday technologies of house and home – weaving, potting, baking, brewing, cheese-making and the rest – were much the same.

For many years, the proposed influenza epicenter has been thought to be Southeast Asia. Farming practices there bring pigs, fowl, and people into close contact, allowing swine, avian, and human flu viruses to mix. The cycle is thought to be birds to pigs to humans.

Do you know how much cheaper we could buy that feed if we'd get into the government program?" "The feed wouldn't be cheaper. It'd just mean somebody else was helpin' pay for it, is all.

I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm.

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.

All gardeners can assume that every square inch of their garden soil contains weeds. Some of them may have been there for years, while others dropped or blew in only yesterday. The seeds that exist naturally in any soil are called the soil's seed bank.

More cotton will grow on a crooked row than a straight one.