Quotes About Farming

Shropshire, the fatlands of Gloucestershire

Most people in Kingsbridge could talk only about agriculture and adultery, neither of which interested her.

More than a mere alternative strategy, regenerative agriculture represents a fundamental shift in our culture's relationship to nature.

He plough'd her, and she cropp'd.

I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.

Agriculture for an honorable and high-minded man, is the best of all occupations and arts by which men procure the means of living.

All good farmers become connoisseurs of dirt and dust.

many currently profitable conventional farming methods would become uneconomical if their true costs were incorporated into market pricing. Direct financial subsidies, and failure to include costs of depleting soil fertility and exporting pollutants, continue to encourage practices that degrade the land

People tend to assume that organic farming and sustainability go hand in hand. But that's not necessarily the case - and it hasn't been for most of history. While going organic has some big advantages, even today most organic farmers still rely on the plow - the chief culprit in the this story. Why? Because it provides cheap, reliable weed suppression." David Montgomery - Growing a Revolution

With rare exceptions, the fields of all countries have been made to bear their crops without the least reference to the interests of future generations.

Across the board, dietary advice typically focuses on what and how much to eat, with remarkably little attention paid to how farming practices influence the nutritional quality of food and whether the "right foods" pack the nutrients they once had.

The Gezer Calendar is a limestone inscription from the mid- or late 900s B.C., thought to be the earliest survival of written Hebrew. Discovered in A.D. 1908 at the site of the ancient city of Gezer in what is now southern Israel, the "calendar" briefly lists the months of the year by farming duties.

In Europe, corn (wheat) is the major crop, and a staple part of our diets

To each head of a family, one-quarter of a section; To each single person over eighteen years of age, one-eighth of a section; To each orphan child under eighteen years of age, one-eighth

Vegtables, what food eats before it becomes food.

Organic food production has existed for thousands of years (since the beginning of agriculture) and it will continue as long as humans live on the planet.

As soils are depleted, human health, vitality and intelligence go with them.

The best hemp and the best tobacco grow on the same kind of soil. The former article is of the first necessity to the wealth and protection of the country. The latter, never useful.

I recycle. I have a house in the south of France and I have a small garden. My name is Dujardin - 'from the garden.' I grow carrots, peppers, strawberries, green beans, and things for salads, but there are lots of wild boars all around and they steal the food.

High soil potassium is directly linked to high pH in the juice.

Can you milk 'em? If you can't milk 'em, they're pets!

The corn is planted first, followed by beans, then squash between the rows.They are called the Three Sisters. They sustain each other, the earth, and us. But the Big Ones do not know that. They do not care for the earth, and its children, properly.

shall do my best in the years at my disposal to train them so to love the garden, and out-door life, and even farming, that, if they have a spark of their mother in them, they will want and ask for nothing better.

Farmers have been extremely conservative. Throughout the world there are 148 species of large animals and yet only fourteen of these have been domesticated as farm animals, grown for meat, milk or wool, or all three, or used to supply muscle-power to pull carts, ploughs or carry people.